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Quotes About Courtship

The director had come to Madrid to court me.
~ Victoria Abril
At 14 I discovered girls. At that time dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship.
~ Gene Kelly
Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman?
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
I was raised by a woman who knows her own worth, and her daughters firmly believe that life is much better for a woman when a man has to work really hard to get her. It's human nature to take better care of something you've worked for, whether it's a car or a wife.
~ Linda Howard
He just likes to flirt!
~ Joan Holub
Dancing was the only activity he enjoyed with a woman, and he regretted that court dancing was no longer in vogue. If you want to bed a woman, do it in the bedroom. If you want to seduce her, do it in the dance.
~ Anne Bishop
She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.
~ Anne Bront
Andy crouched disconsolately before Judge Hardy. "Dad, I don't understand these modern girls. Polly won't let you kiss her at all, but this Cynthia, she'll let you kiss her whenever you want, all the time.
~ Annie Barrows
Gillespie: And you haven't kissed me for two weeks. I had an idea that after a girl was kissed she was--was--on. Rosalind: Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'm wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that is their career. I very much like the traditional courtship method of making a date. That's what they do in normal places, but Hollywood's not normal.
~ Seth MacFarlane
My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory.
~ Elizabeth Warren
For a species low in male parental investment, the basic dynamic of courtship, as we've seen, is pretty simple: the male really wants sex; the female isn't so sure.7
~ Robert Wright
No ha visto usted nunca a esos pájaros ridículos que bailan hasta la extenuación para conquistar a la hembra? Así era Arturo Belano, un pavorreal presumido y tonto. Y el realismo visceral, su agotadora danza de amor hacia mi. Pero el problema era que yo ya no lo amaba. Se puede conquistar a una muchacha con un poema, pero no se la puede retener con un poema. Vaya, ni siquiera con un movimiento poético.
~ Roberto Bolano
I'll always be your friend," he said. "Your best friend, if you let me. But I want to be your lover, too." He groaned and shifted in his chair. "Soon. I want to be that soon." Then a look came over him. "Oh Gina…I didn't even court you! God, I should date you first before I beg you to take off your clothes!
~ Robyn Carr
Many a woman has been won without ever being wooed.
~ Louis Bayard
That's how a woman wins a mans heart, by making him think that he amuses her.
~ Louis de Bernieres
Oui, et je comprends ; pour retrouver une femme, vous faites la cour à une autre : c'est le chemin le plus long, mais le plus amusant.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I had once heard somebody say, at a party, that one of the nice things about marriage was that you could have real affairs – an affair before marriage could always turn out to be nothing but courtship.
~ Alice Munro
Only during courtship might a woman briefly gain the upper hand, as both Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour did, but woe betide her if she did not quickly learn to conform once the wedding-ring was on her finger. The
~ Alison Weir
She saw Henry look hungrily into Anne's face as they met in the dance. And in that moment she knew.
~ Alison Weir
Could he truly pretend that he wanted to be her friend? A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time, and had never got anywhere.
~ Joe Abercrombie
At one time, the first step in courtship was asking permission to write to the person who interested your affections,
~ Joey W. Hill
A guy should always pursue the girl.
~ Roop Durgapal
I am not in the favour of a girl running after a guy. My traditional thinking is that a guy should pursue first. Personally, also, I would never run after a guy.
~ Roop Durgapal