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Quotes About Courtship

Blythe was Viktor's in. He'd arranged a casual meeting and swept her off her feet. He was good with women. He knew exactly how to read them and what they wanted and needed. He was good at providing.
~ Christine Feehan
Go, but hurry back. I'll find out all your secrets while you're gone." Mikhail was hungry, needed to feed. He bent to brush her forehead with his mouth, his heart aching. "Just for one day, little one, I would like to have a normal, happy conversation with you. Court you as I should." She tilted her head to look at him, her blue eyes dark with emotion. "You court me just fine.
~ Christine Feehan
So there I was eating haute cuisine in a mobile home. He cooked for me as seduction, a courtship, so that I'd never again be impressed with a man who simply took me out to dinner. And I fell in love with him over a deer's liver.
~ Kristin Kimball
Fire is a fragile lover, court her well, neglect her not; her faith is like a misty smoke, her anger is destructive hot.
~ Cate Tiernan
Speaking of pits in plum pudding, do you remember your sister's first attempt? Your grandfather broke off his only remaining tooth trying to eat it." "And swallowed tooth, pit and all, so he wouldn't embarrass her in front of Gray Horse, who had come to court her.
~ Catherine Anderson
Byron kissed her gloved hand as they stepped lightly round one another. He could dance like rivers could run. No one had ever kissed her hand before. Emily felt like she was going to throw up and like she was flying all at once.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
It is not wise to meddle with D'Angelines in matters of love.
~ Jacqueline Carey
There's always something funny about men chasing women.
~ David Spade
The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.
~ H. L. Mencken
For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
~ Thucydides
Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
Courtship? Had I said courtship ? What did I think, that this was Jane freakin' Eyre?
~ Terri Farley
The green grass and the happy skies court the fluttering butterflies.
~ Terri Guillemets
The most feasible way of getting a woman to go to bed with you was to marry her.
~ Terry Gross
yield the lady, or prepare to maintain his right by arms.
~ Thomas Bulfinch
I thought you were a white knights who put great store in chivalry. It's not the least chivalrous of you to try to seduce me.
~ Nicole Jordan
Flowers, champagne, caviar. Do you usually come so well equipped when you break and enter? Only when I want to apologize and throw myself on the mercy of a beautiful woman.
~ Nora Roberts
Human relations, at least between the sexes, were carried on as relations between countries are now - with ambassadors, and treaties. The parties concerned met on the great occasion of the proposal. If this were refused, a state of war was declared.
~ Virginia Woolf
We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives. I was a strong lad and survived; but the poison was in the wound, and the wound remained ever open, and soon I found myself maturing amid a civilization which allows a man of twenty-five to court a girl of sixteen but not a girl of twelve.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Mi señora -dijo Marco, inclinándose ante ella-, vuestra radiante belleza ha sido para mí una brillante estrella que me ha guiado hasta la victoria. Os suplico que vuestros luminosos rayos consientan rozar mi oscuro y triste corazón, arrancándolo de las profundas tinieblas en las que se halla sin vuestro favor. Os ruego aceptéis que os ofrezca mi esfuerzo de hoy, y perdonéis mi atrevimiento al solicitaros que me admitaís como vuestro caballero.
~ Laura Gallego García
In the animal kingdom, the male performs for the woman, woos her with his beautiful feathers or flowing mane, is always trying to out-strut the other men. Why do humans do it the other way? It doesn't make sense. Men need us more than we need them.
~ Laura Lippman
Dating is all about the chase. It's fun!
~ Lauren Conrad
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
~ Laurence Sterne
Though in her late thirties, she had no fears of spinsterhood because she had been assiduously courted for fifteen years by Charlie Hudson from the Darrowby fish shop and though Charlie was not a tempestuous suitor there was nothing flighty about him and he was confidently expected to pop the question over the next ten years or so. Mr.
~ James Herriot