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Quotes About Courtship

Every book should have a romance.
~ Jasper Fforde
A lot of people head into courtship looking for fireworks. Don't pass up a chance by dumping someone after a first date because you don't feel the fireworks. The fireworks can happen at any time and be maintained.
~ Helen Fisher
I had met my wife in college. Her name was Barbara, and she was the first woman besides my mother to show the faintest interest in me. It took six years to persuade her to marry me.
~ Philip Gulley
young gentleman with whom she's been osculating on
~ Jonathan Franzen
Sea horses have complicated routines for courtship, and tend to mate under full moons, making musical sounds while doing so.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father; but coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
~ Plotinus
Don't be ever in court or a castle without a woman to make your excuse.
~ Proverb
We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
~ Walter Bagehot
I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. Some seem to have but one vulnerable point, or door of access; while others have a thousand avenues, and may be captured in a thousand different ways
~ Washington Irving
I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.
~ Washington Irving
the bicycle enabled more and more young men living in villages to court girls in distant villages thus giving a wider choice of mate and resulting in a more widespread and therefore richer human gene pool.
~ James Clarke
Every man has his own way of courting the female sex. I should not, myself, choose to do it with photographs of spleens, diseased or otherwise.
~ Agatha Christie
I want to remind the new generation about the power of old school romance.
~ Jubin Nautiyal
On that day, nothing could have seemed more romantic to me, no other scenario more like real courtship, than a Chinese movie and a hand job under a coat.
~ Rachel Kushner
For she thought that she glimpsed through the dust of the years, a faint flicker of the girl who had lingered in the lanes when the young man Williams and she had been courting. And looking at Williams as he stood before her twitching and bowed, she thought that she glimpsed a faint flicker of the youth, very stalwart and comely, who had bent his head downwards and sideways as he walked and whispered and kissed in the lanes.
~ Radclyffe Hall
I managed to find this awesome woman - Rajlakshmi, chased her for two years and finally got married.
~ Rahul Roy
I'm not just the tough chick from Atlanta who's an attorney. I'm a girl who wants to be courted and have the love of her life.
~ Andi Dorfman
There is bound to be variation in the population of males in their predisposition to be faithful husbands. If females could recognize such qualities in advance, they could benefit themselves by choosing males possessing them. One way for a female to do this is to play hard to get for a long time, to be coy. Any male who is not patient enough to wait until the female eventually consents to copulate is not likely to be a good bet as a faithful husband.
~ Richard Dawkins
Did he mean for her to look at something she loved and think of him? How dare he. He had no right to give her gifts. No right to remind her she was alone by ensuring that she was not. No right to test whether she had a heart. No right to court her, to please her, or to do whatever he bloody well might be doing by giving her a kitten.
~ Julie Anne Long
courting is for those who have not declared their love for one another- should not be considered a task.
~ Julie Garwood
She had taken an almost instant dislike to him over a dinner at Nopi which, when the bill arrived, he had been more than happy to go Dutch on, thereby failing one of her first requirements of a suitor, which was to behave like a gentleman. She wanted doors opening, meals paid for, flowers. Billets-doux (lovely words, made her think of doves – bill and coo). She wanted to be courted. Gallantry. What a lovely word.
~ Kate Atkinson
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.
~ William Shakespeare
A big part of dating for men is the huntthe chase.
~ Jesse Palmer