Quotes About Courtship

I sometimes think we should go back to the old days, when there was proper courtship, when people walked out together for weeks and weeks before anything happened. At least then you know something about each other, you have some solid ground to put your feet on. We're all so impatient now, we just want to get to the main action.

There is no greater code for courtship than walking. Learning to keep in step; the opportunity to express little concerns -- alarm, caution, the touch on the elbow; the blood running in the veins; the sense of movement and shared goal; the sense of just being two amid the swirl; and above all the ability to talk expansively in the open air without the anxiety of each other's gaze and close scrutiny. Those who wish to find love should learn to walk.

Courting is getting to know each other in a group setting, both families spending time together and the couple setting goals together to determine if they are meant to marry.

There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

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.

Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.

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 there was more courting in marriage, there'd be fewer marriages in court. Date your mate. Today.

Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.

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.

Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.

Courtship is an activity whereby one losses oneself … whilst trying to win someone's love.

All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to bystanders.

I enjoy countless hundreds pursuing me. I love those who love me the most. I am sort of flattered by men showing attention to me.

When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.

If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth

She was the kind of gal that if she set her sights on a man, he'd be running in the opposite direction real quick.

Those who strive to obtain the good graces of a prince are accustomed to come before him with such things as they hold most precious, or in which they see him take most delight; whence one often sees horses, arms, cloth of gold, precious stones, and similar ornaments presented to princes, worthy of their greatness.

Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she would fall in love with me again, just like she had a long time ago. And that's the most wonderful feeling in the world. How many people are ever given that chance? To have someone you love fall in love with you over and over?

Jamie: Are you trying to seduce me? Landon: Why? Are you seducible?

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

The two detectives had been there for well over an hour, and in that time the demon in Aidan had been growing stronger and stronger. HE had all but sprouted fangs as one of them did everything but beg for a date with Alexandria. Did she really need yet another suitor? He was going to have to post a sign on the lawn stating that all males courting Alexandria Houton did so at their own peril.