Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Loving isn't liking and it takes liking to live together.

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

I like being married. It's an institution that I like.

Who doesn't like having love, companionship, care and affection? I get plenty of that from my family and friends. But I'm not averse to marriage.

Everyone is having sex until they fall in love. When you fall in love, then it's making love.

Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.

I love you, Meg. I want to marry you. I want to sleep with you every night, make love with you, have kids. I want to fight together and work together and—just be together. Now are you going to keep standing there, staring at me, or could you put me out of my misery and say you still love me, at least a little?

Man and woman, love, what is it? A cork and a bottle.

Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value of each other's person.

Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

Romance is a different word than sexual contact.

There was a difference between loving someone and being in love

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

There's nothing like the first kiss once you've been pronounced husband and wife. It's such a wonderful moment!

Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.

Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?

It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

Marriage is a great institution.

My own parents loved each other very much.

When you're bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else.

I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.

What I always knew about my parents was that they were in love, and this love had a fizz. It was exciting to be their child, to be around them. There was a dynamism between them, a charge.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.