Quotes by Goldsmith, Oliver

Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in >>

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ven >>

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always >>

Quotations about Romance and Romanticism

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, an >>

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their >>

Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle i >>

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.

Goldsmith, Oliver