“I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.”
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act I
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield
Oliver Goldsmith: Quotes about love
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Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 29, Song, st. 1.
“The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love,
The matron's glance that would those looks reprove.”
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 29.
Variant: A man severe he was, and stern to view;
I knew him well, and every truant knew:
Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace
The day's disasters in his morning face;
Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee,
At all his jokes, for many a joke had he;
Full well the bust whisper, circling round,
Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned;
Yet he was kind; or if severe in aught,
The love he bore to learning was in fault;
The village all declared how much he knew;
'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too.
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 199.
“It seemed to be pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 16.
Act I.
The Good-Natured Man (1768)
“All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.”
Act I.
The Good-Natured Man (1768)