Quote by Oliver Goldsmith
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the

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. – Oliver Goldsmith

Other quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. – Oliver Goldsmith

Category:
Learning
Read Quote

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. – Oliver Goldsmith

Category:
Consumerism
Read Quote

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts. – Oliver Goldsmith

Category:
Aristocracy
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Romance
category

And whats romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and its always daisy-time. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Category:
Romance

Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not. – Aleister Crowley

Category:
Romance

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be. – Mary Wortley Montagu

Category:
Romance

Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the fathers curse, mothers moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks. – Emma Goldman

Category:
Romance

Random Quotes

In fact history does not belong to us but we belong to it. – Hans-Georg Gadamer

Category:
History

You cant have it both ways. You cant tell me that youre taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, Bring me home some bacon. The pig has been picked clean. – Rand Paul

Category:
Government

A nightmare is only a dream that hits turbulence. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Dreams

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Category:
Anger