Quotes About Courtliness

All things left her, all But one. Her highborn courtliness Accompanied her to the end, Beyond the rapture and its eclipse, In a way like an angel's. Of Elvira The first thing that I saw - such years ago - Was her smile and also it was the last.

courtliness being the gear that his engine idled in.

One of the more curious paradoxes of Yates's nature was his almost archaic courtliness toward women on the one hand, and his lifelong tendency to emphasize their physical defects and/or dubious upbringing on the other.

Elaborate is the courtliness of the imagination, on one sore knee before beauty.

Tall and svelte, he oozed sophistication and was "very pleasant in the sight of gentlewomen.