Logo
Quote by Oliver Goldsmith
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men bet

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? – 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
Author
Oliver Goldsmith
Read Quote

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

Category:
Beauty
Author
Oliver Goldsmith
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Seduction
category

A gentleman doesnt pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one. – Quentin Crisp

Category:
Seduction

You have to penetrate a womans defenses. Getting into her head is a prerequisite to getting into her body. – Bob Guccione

Category:
Seduction

Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world. – John H. Aughey

Category:
Seduction

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh. – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Category:
Seduction

Random Quotes

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost – the lost valleys of the imagination. – Alexander Cockburn

Category:
Imagination

The most violent element in society is ignorance. – Emma Goldman

Category:
Ignorance

There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: were lifetime baby-making machines. Womens reproductive abilities start to wane when theyre as young as 35. Men? Were good to go pretty much till were dead. – Jeffrey Kluger

Category:
Age

Art is the most passionate orgy within mans grasp. – John Donne

Category:
Art