Quotes About Wooing

Why makes thou it so strange? She is a woman, therefore may be wooed; She is a woman, therefore may be won; She is Lavinia , therefore must be loved.

Viola to Duke Orsino: 'I'll do my best To woo your lady.' [Aside.] 'Yet, a barful strife! Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife.

Altogether, it made wooing Morpheus a great deal more difficult than usual. I napped and woke up, napped and woke up, until finally, around two thirty, Rita closed her suitcase, thumped it onto the floor, and crawled in beside me, and I dropped off into deep, wonderful sleep at last. In

I was trying for years to woo people through humour, but it seems flash cars are much easier.

The problem of love lies in the way we woo.

she had meant to woo him. In her own weird, unsettling way she had simply been courting him and he'd been too stupid to realize it.

Romances paint at full length people's wooings, but only give a bust of marriages: but no one cares for matrimonial cooings

'Healing ' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

Healing is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.

I think he is losing heart in his attempts to woo her. In that bright-yellow waistcoat, the bottom button always punctiliously undone and the pointed flaps open over his neat little paunch, he is as intent and circumspect as one of those outlandishly plumed male birds, peacock or cock peasant, who gorgeously stalk up and down at a distance, desperate of eye but pretending indifference, while the drab hen unconcernedly pecks in the gravel for grubs.

Go see him again why don't you, said Bunny, take him some flowers and tell him you love Plato and he'll be eating out of your hand.

The wooing of those days was prompt and practical. There was no time for the gradual approaches of an idler and more conventional age. It is related of one Stout, one of the legendary Nimrods of Illinois, who was well and frequently married, that he had one unfailing formula of courtship. He always promised the ladies whose hearts he was besieging that they should live in the timber where they could pick up their own firewood.

She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won

That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

In courtship a man pursues a woman until she catches him.

If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning.

Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back. All my life the god of the Mountain has been wooing me. Oh, look up once at least before the end and wish me joy. I am going to my lover. Do you not see now?

If she's out here and not locked up in the barracks, I'll know," he said. He took a deep breath and whistled. "You share a whistle?" Trevanion said in disbelief. "Do you have a problem with that?" Finnikin asked. "I have a few whistles," Lucian murmured. "Very confusing sometimes." "Whistles are meant for combat," Trevanion said. "Not wooing women. Women do not understand whistles.