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Quotes About Courtship

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.
~ Ozwald Boateng
Some dangers are to be courted--courted and braved as a coy mistress is to be wooed, with all the more vigor as the day makes against us.
~ bovee christian nestell iv
Being a woman was a trap. Something would bring you down before you were twenty-three. The only time the world shows you any favor, or cuts you any slack, is during that very brief period of courtship where the world is trying to fuck you for the first time.
~ Heather O'Neill
The only time the world shows you any favor, or cuts you any slack, is during that very brief period of courtship where the world is trying to fuck you for the first time.
~ Heather O'Neill
Males transmit signals in courtship through behavioral displays.
~ Peter R. Grant
It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she most confides in—her friends, of course, and her sister, if she has one.
~ Anna Godbersen, The Luxe
The etiquette of romantic love is as elaborate as that surrounding the Emperor of China.
~ Mason Cooley
We cannot fight for love, as men may do; we shou'd be woo'd, and were not made to woo
~ William Shakespeare
I have pursued her, as love hath pursued me
~ William Shakespeare
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.
~ John Godfrey Saxe
courting is for those who have not declared their love for one another- should not be considered a task.
~ Julie Garwood
Yes, it is." Bennett blew out his breath. "You can't expect me to…sit in the morning room and chat about the weather with her mother, and hold her yarn while she knits, and…wait five weeks before I attempt to hold her hand.
~ Suzanne Enoch
I haven't heard a woman say my name in a long time, Theresa. Say my name." She pulled in a hard breath, pretending to be annoyed rather than unsettled and excited by the intimacy. "Very well. Tolly. Better?" "Infinitely." Slowly he ran his fingertips along her cheek, making her shiver. "So many handsome gentlemen courting you, Tess," he whispered, "and yet here you are.
~ Suzanne Enoch
What's your definition of dating? Lengthy social time spent with a woman during which we're not actively fucking
~ Sylvia Day
We could mate. In a year our nestlings would be large enough to mob anyone we like...Should I begin to court you? Do you like grubs or ants better?...I will be here. In case you change your mind about mating.
~ Tamora Pierce
My beloved, you have chosen me. You have been courted by my adversary, and you have chosen me. You have answered my call to the Circle, and today I call you my bride.
~ Ted Dekker
A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls.
~ Julie Murphy
In some way, the magazine helped validate a new kind of American manhood--the kind of guy who would court you with mix tapes, sported Converse Chuck Taylors and shaggy bedhead on his lanky frame, wept over the disappearing rain forest, and had Backlash on his bookshelf.
~ Kara Jesella
The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.
~ Frank Dane
Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.
~ Frank Muir
Typically, the young male spreads his legs to show his erection—a sexual invitation—making sure that his back is turned to the other males or that, with his underarm leaning on his knee, one of his hands loosely dangles right next to his penis so that only the wooed female can see
~ Frans de Waal
Position in the male hierarchy is only one factor in the mating game. The other one is female preference.
~ Frans de Waal
love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.
~ Brander Matthews
Almighty help any man who tries to keep track of your tangled courtships, son.
~ Brandon Sanderson