I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThey say women and music should never be dated.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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?
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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