Quotes About Courtship

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.

I was voted the most beautiful girl in the world in 1958, and courted by every young, available man in Los Angeles, most of whom I didn't go out with, by the way.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.

Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult.

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

Courtship to marriage is as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

The seeds of a happy marriage are sown in youth. Happiness does not begin at the altar; it begins during the period of youth and courtship.

The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.

It must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.

She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptibilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life.

How impatience men are! All Jack has to do to get everything he wants is to keep quiet and let that girl marry him; whereas I have to calculate and contrive, and retreat and advance, as if I were going through an intricate dance where one misstep would throw me hopelessly out of time.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

The less we love her when we woo her, The more we draw a woman in

Courtship is romantic. Marriage ... is an act of will," said Pippa, taking a sip of water. "I mean, I adore Herb. But the marriage functions because we will it to. If you leave love to hold everything together, you can forget it.

Wait for me, Molly. I finally have my pa's blessing. He's even helping me find a position in Lockhart. As soon as I'm settled, I'll come calling, but I can't court you now. I can't keep stepping out with you until we're ready to wed. Will you wait?" With

That may be great for a married couple, but I think it is a stupid idea for two people trying to get to know each other! If you are a young man trying to get to know a young girl, for heaven's sake, don't take her to a movie!

She sat on her porch those first nights, wrapped in the brackish tidal air. The future's breeze split across her face and joined up again behind her. She felt herself a spinster whose sudden new suitor must be either sadistic, blind, or a confused fortune hunter. She'd read all the cautionary fairy tales and knew the one inevitable outcome. Still, she consented to this courtship, and even decided to court it back.

Unless you stop him. Perhaps next we meet. You'll be just as annoying? I guessed. He fixed my with those warm brown eyes. Or perhaps you could bring me up to speed on those modern courtship rituals. I sat there stunned until he gave me a glimpse of a smile-just enough to let me know he was teasing. Then he disappeared. Oh, very funny! I yelled.

They say he's something of a Romeo." "Romeo?" I sputtered a laugh. "Seriously?" "You know what I mean, Maya. He likes girls." "Which, all things considered, is good.

Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure

She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.