Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! – Oliver Goldsmith
Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success. – Oliver Goldsmith
I love everything thats old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. – Oliver Goldsmith
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well. – Oliver Goldsmith
It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of ones inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness. – Coleman Dowell