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Oliver Goldsmith Quotes about Love

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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Oliver Goldsmith
Love, Friendship, Birthday
1773 She Stoops to Conquer, act 1, sc.1.

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

Oliver Goldsmith
Love, Change, Death

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Oliver Goldsmith
Love, Friendship, Real
'The Good-Natured Man' (1768) act 1

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

Oliver Goldsmith
Love, Art, Betrayal
The Vicar of Wakefield ch. 29 (1766)

All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.

Oliver Goldsmith
Love, Faults, One Love
'The Good-Natured Man' (1768) act 1

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

Oliver Goldsmith
Love, Matrimony
'The Vicar of Wakefield' (1766) ch. 16

The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.

Oliver Goldsmith
Love, Life, Looks
Oliver Goldsmith (1794). “The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith, with the life of the author, embellished with vignettes by T. Bewick”, p.42

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

Oliver Goldsmith
Love, Pleasure, Charm

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

Oliver Goldsmith
Love, Men, Zealous
Oliver Goldsmith (1845). “The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale”, p.96

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