Courtship Quotes

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I don’t believe in courtship.It’s a waste of time. If I love the person, I’ll tell her right away. But for you, I’ll make an exception. Just love me now, and I’ll court you forever.

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full tide. But loathe the expense, the vanity and pride. No place each way is happy.

Courtship is a commitment - it's a promise not to play games with another person's heart.

This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.

Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit.

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him, and if you don't you must still please-in order to avoid having one.

I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love.

See how the skilful lover spreads his toils.

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.

During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.

Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.

There is too little courtship in the world.

It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.

Think not because you are now wed That all your courtship's at an end.

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.

If most of your courtship attempts have succeeded, you must be a very attractive and charming person who has been aiming too low.

Always carry it in thy mind, and act upon it, as a sure maxim: "That women are timid:" And 'tis well they are--else there would beno dealing with them.

Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest.

A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.

I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.

We have better relationships with those who truly seek us rather than those sitting on the couch watching us move mountains trying to prove ourselves.

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.

Courtship is exciting and romantic because it thrives on the edge of disaster. It co-exists with the threat that, at any moment, it could fall apart and be lost forever.

You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.

The seeds of a happy marriage are sown in youth. Happiness does not begin at the altar; it begins during the period of youth and courtship.

We get an apartment together, and after a whirlwind courtship you marry my sister and honeymoon in Vegas.

Giving words [is] an act of lovers.

The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.

In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow.

I asked of Echo 't other day (Whose words are few and often funny), What to a novice she could say Of courtship, love, and matrimony. Quoth Echo, plainly, "Matter-o'-money.

God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse.

With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely.

Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.

So much of courtship is the unspoken.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.

I have long had a theory Bill Clinton-Hillary Clinton relationship. Not how they met, not that story, not the courtship or any of that. But how it happened that this once-in-a-lifetime woman.

I haven't been to a job interview since I was 16 years old. When I was approached by Givenchy it was more like a courtship.

Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo.

Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts To courtship and such fair ostents of love As shall conveniently become you there.

Here are officers enough in Meryton to disappoint all the young ladies in the country.

Money can't buy love, but it can buy a woman's attention.

Love is sweet even when what you go through is bitter.