Quotes by Goldsmith, Oliver

People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to >>

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

I... chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy >>

Quotations about Seduction

Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, crea >>

A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of fu >>

Man proposes, woman forecloses. >>

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?

Goldsmith, Oliver