Quotes About Courtship

in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal.

there are many blanks left in the weeks of courtship which a loving faith fills with happy assurance.

Persecution and revenge, like courtship and toadyism, will not prosper without a considerable expenditure of time and ingenuity

That first meeting - the one where the hero and heroine start the slow burn that takes the whole story to turn into true love - is the single most important part of the whole book. Nail it, and you've won yourself readers.

Woody Allen said that 95% of history is explained as a man trying to impress a woman. And that's true in my life.

to be courted as princesses for a few weeks, in order to be treated as slaves for the rest of our lives.

I confess that I enjoy this vocation, in spite of my sex. I feel a certain thrill, as if I were visiting a lover. But it is money I court, money that woos me, and the intoxicating power to earn a very great deal.

Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers.

Till some one else has made himself agreeable to her." Was he to send his girl into the world in order that she might find a lover? There was something in the idea which was thoroughly distasteful to him.

He's been so little here, Daniel," said the squire. "It goes as tinder and a spark o' fire, that does," said the farmer. "Girls like Ruby don't want no time to be wooed by one such as that, though they'll fall-lall with a man like John Crumb for years.

A girl almost always likes a man who is in love with her,—unless indeed she positively dislikes him.

Somehow it doesn't seem appropriate to detail for you how to properly go about organizing a revolt--and likewise it seems kind of silly to exhort you to look, if you should suddenly start receiving mysterious letters of courtship, for possible inkstains on the fingers of the fellow you quarrel with the most.

Then out of the blue there came Shapiro the Bookkeeper who didn't play a bad game of chess and Rose fell for him.

He held her lightly enough and, after the chaste custom of the era, his hands were gloved. But his finger- tips felt a current from her body. He knew that she was the most exquisite child in the world; he knew that he was going to marry her and keep her forever in a shrine; he knew that after years of puzzled wonder about the purpose of life, he had found it.

Courtship is indeed a pleasing part of life when there is mutual affection, the consent of friends, the reasonable prospect of an eventual fulfillment, and when it is conducted in obedience to the will and worship of God. But when these concomitants are absent, what we call love becomes the most tormenting and destructive passion that can be named.

In the romantic world, there's only one way that truly works. The man must be attracted to and then pursue the woman.

Gabriel looked up at her from under thick eyelashes. "Will you please grope me under the table, Kate mine?" "I'm not your Kate," she said, feeling her lips curve. Her treacherous heart was no match for a flirtatious prince on a summer's day. "That's the odd thing," he said, lying on his back again and shading his eyes with an arm. "You are, you are, you are.

She gave a little scream. "You oughtn't to creep up on a person!" He smiled down at her. "You'll have to get used to me following you out of rooms. If you are determined to be exasperated with me, and I am determined to be with you, I shall probably become very familiar with your defiant back leading the way to a door." That was so foolish that she found herself nearly smiling.

People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.

Has no one ever told you that it is the height of impropriety to kiss any gentleman, unless you have the intention of accompanying him immediately to the altar?

This, said Damerel wrathfully, is the second time you have walked in just as I am about to propose to your sister!

There is always a thought of marriage between a single female and a personable gentleman, if not in his mind, quite certainly in hers.