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Quotes About Courtship

Tomorrow is Saint Valentines day, All in the morning betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your Valentine.
~ William Shakespeare
I come to wive it wealthily in Padua.
~ William Shakespeare
She's beautiful and therefore to be woo'd,She is a woman, therefore to be won.
~ William Shakespeare
Was ever woman in this humor woo'd?Was ever woman in this humor won?
~ William Shakespeare
Who woo'd in haste and means to wed at leisure.
~ William Shakespeare
There's always something funny about men chasing women.
~ David Spade
Some young ladies meet a man and from there it is all plain sailing, but this is not the usual way it happens.
~ Elizabeth Aston
Birds are everywhere, singing their hearts out every morning, including a bachelor mockingbird, who courts the ladies with his playlist of imitative calls.
~ Elizabeth Berg
Now, now, said Vale in a sickeningly sweet voice reminiscent of a nursery nanny. I already gave him a drubbing for courting Emmie. Reynaud raised his eyebrows. You did? He did not, Hartley said even as Vale nodded happily. I threw him down the stairs. Vale pursed his lips and looked skyward. Not my recollection, but I can see how your memory of the event may've become hazy.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
BUT HOW, EXACTLY, did one go about seducing a husband one hardly knew?
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
As he brought her back to her waiting parent he lowered his head to hers and said, I'll call on you next week, shall I? The hand on his arm jerked, but she kept her composure. I beg your pardon, Your Grace? I intend to court you, he informed her kindly, and then added to make it perfectly clear, and make you my wife. She swallowed. Oh, no. He smiled. Oh, yes.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
Throughout our courtship, Kenny told me that he had proof that Saddam Hussein was a threat because he possessed weapons of mass destruction. I told him, 'You had me at weapons.'
~ Renee Zellweger
There is too little courtship in the world.
~ Vernon Lee
It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.
~ Michael Reagan
The loss of courtship in modern days - like, people don't court anybody anymore. There's no beauty about it.
~ Sofia Vassilieva
In a second-class courtesan house, the courtship was much briefer. It could even be one night; usually it went on a little bit longer. But as the years went by, that period of courtship was shorter and shorter.
~ Amy Tan
Under this system, an unmarried woman who offers food to a man is effectively flirting, if not offering betrothal. Male anthropologists have to be aware of this to avoid embarrassment in such societies. Cofeeding is often the only marriage ceremony, such that if an unmarried pair are seen eating together, they are henceforward regarded as married.
~ Richard W. Wrangham
The vampire who made her toes curl with his accented, old-fashioned phrasings. "Be my dear
~ Kresley Cole
You like someone, you court each other, you get into a relationship. You're answerable to each other. Whereas, the non-answerability of dating, my God, I don't know if I would ever be able to.
~ Priyanka Chopra
A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.
~ William Shakespeare
Courtship is exciting and romantic because it thrives on the edge of disaster. It co-exists with the threat that, at any moment, it could fall apart and be lost forever.
~ Karen Scalf Linamen
When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.
~ yoshikawa eiji
Personally, I think knees should be kept for the eighth or ninth date, or the wedding day. As a nice surprise you know? 'oh, my darling, you have knees! I never would have thought
~ Derek Landy
We get an apartment together, and after a whirlwind courtship you marry my sister and honeymoon in Vegas.
~ Eoin Colfer