Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the gym at 6 A.M. every day - Why? Because she's there.

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.

I've always been a slave to my heart.

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.

I would just as soon argue with a maniac from Bedlam, as with the Senator from New Hampshire.

Kat didn't know what to say. It's good to see you too? Thanks for getting me kicked out? Is it possible you've gotten even hotter? I think I might have missed you?

Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.

A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling.

Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.

Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do.

What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign.

I had no choice. Love does funny things to people.

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

When anyone apologizes to us he has to do it very expertly: otherwise we might easily come to see ourselves as the guilty party and experience unpleasant feelings.

And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm... it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.

She could not read a book for fear of the feelings she might find in it.

Many researchers say the dominant emotion experienced after loss is yearning or searching. And while you might feel more anger early on, it's accompanied by a whole host of other feelings.

Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddamn

If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.

She was on edge, feeling that she might snap or cry at the smallest provocation.

Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some