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Quotes About Courtship

A kiss is the prize?' he asked sadly. 'Even more than giving me the rest of you? It should be the other way round, Princess. In the real world, it's called courting. You let a lad kiss you and then you offer him more.' 'Let me tell you something, Olivier,' she said with tears of sorrow in her eyes, 'this is my real world.
~ Melina Marchetta
That's what the court needs-a happy king, a king who can't stop dreaming of being lost in someone who wants to be just as lost. Tell me you'll let me get lost in you.
~ Melissa Marr
If he took her into his arms, he would keep her. He wouldn't let her suffer the way the other mortals had when he'd left them. He would keep her, with his court's permission or without it. Irial wouldn't take her, and Keenan wouldn't stand between them.
~ Melissa Marr
Most guys don't like to be pursued like that. I mean, I suppose it's kinda flattering when a girl likes you so much that she'll go after you, but most guys want to be the ones doing the chasing.
~ Melody Carlson
A lover pays his court where his heart has taken root; he aims at gaining every one's favour in that spot; and so as to have no one opposed to his flame, he endeavours to please the very house-dog.
~ Moliere
Do you have infrared vision?" Interest glittered on his face. Venom smiled, the curious reaction a far preferable one to quivering fear or horror. "You'll have to court me with roses and diamonds before asking such intimate questions." Vivek snorted. "It's just like working for the Guild--place is full of smartasses.
~ Nalini Singh
When he'd been younger and first starting to feel the urge to rut with females - and before he'd grown up to the point where many of the opposite sex found him irresistible - he'd tried to court girls by bringing them meat and shiny things. It turned out he'd scared them. "Most women and girls," Dmitri had told him, "don't know what to do when a man drops a hunk of raw meat in their hands.
~ Nalini Singh
Did you know the bear idea of courtship is to kidnap their mates off the streets? Surely not. Surely yes.
~ Nalini Singh
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.
~ O. Henry
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
~ Oscar Wilde
The wolf wanted to bed her and claim her as his own. Being of a more cautious nature than his wolf, he would wait until he knew her a little better before deciding to court her.
~ Patricia Briggs
If you had let me," he said, "I'd have courted you gently and won your heart." He closed his eyes. "I didn't mean to frighten you.
~ Patricia Briggs
What I personally knew about courting women could comfortably fit into a thimble without taking it off your finger first.
~ Patrick Rothfuss