Quotes About Courtship

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

Till it does come, you know, we women never mean to have anybody. It is a thing of course among us, that every man is refused, till he offers.

The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish for its continuance.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

A good looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man.

She always declares she will never marry, which, of course, means just nothing at all. But I have no idea that she has yet ever seen a man she cared for. It would not be a bad thing for her to be very much in love with a proper object. I should like to see Emma in love, and in some doubt of a return; it would do her good. But there is nobody hereabouts to attach her; and she goes so seldom from home.

What is his name?

And then when you go away, you may leave one or two of my sisters behind you; and I dare say I shall get husbands for them before the winter is over.'' I thank you for my share of the favour,'' said Elizabeth, But I do not particularly like your way of getting husbands.

I do not believe, said Mrs. Dashwood, with a good humoured smile, that Mr. Willoughby will be incommoded by the attempts of either of MY daughters towards what you call CATCHING him. It is not an employment to which they have been brought up. Men are very safe with us, let them be ever so rich.

For a single man with a good fortune must be in want of a wife

I never saw a more promising inclination; he was growing quite inattentive to other people, and wholly engrossed by her. Every time they met, it was more decided and remarkable. At his own ball he offended two or three young ladies, by not asking them to dance; and I spoke to him twice myself, without receiving an answer. Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

I believe, there is scarcely a young lady in the united kingdoms, who would not rather put up with the misfortune of being sought by a clever, agreeable man, than have him driven away by the vulgarity of her nearest relations.

Elizabeth Bennet: I'm very fond of walking. Mr. Darcy: Yes... yes I know. (from Pride & Prejudice, the movie)

El que fuese aficionado al baile era verdaderamente una ventaja a la hora de enamorarse;

He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions.

I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned.

She was guilty only of being less rich than he had supposed her to be. Under a mistaken persuasion of her possessions and claims, he had courted her acquaintance in Bath, solicited her company at Northanger, and designed her for his daughter-in-law. On discovering his error, to turn her from the house seemed the best, though to his feelings an inadequate proof of his resentment towards herself, and his contempt of her family.

Edmund only took Fanny because Mary shocked him, and that Fanny might very likely have taken Crawford if he had been a little more assiduous; yet the matchless rehearsal-scenes and the characters of Mrs. Norris and others have secured, I believe, a considerable party for it. Sense and Sensibility has perhaps the

EÄŸer bir kad?n sevgisini sevdiÄŸi adamdan ayn? beceriyle saklarsa adam? elde etme f?rsat?n? kaç?rabilir, o zaman dünyan?n da haberi olmad???na inanmak zay?f bir teselli olur.

But it is very likely that hemay fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love;

I am not now to learn, replied Mr. Collins, with a formal wave of the hand, that it is usual with young ladies to reject the addresses of the man whom they secretly mean to accept, when he first applies for their favour; and that sometimes the refusal is repeated a second or even a third time. I am therefore by no means discouraged by what you have just said, and shall hope to lead you to the altar ere long.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.