Courtship Quotes

Dorothy Parker

By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this -
One of you is lying.

Drew Barrymore

Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.

William Shakespeare

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves
I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

Joshua Harris

Do you see a theme emerging? Women like flowers; men like food!

Daniel Willey

Dating is like a game. If someone feels like they have won us over too easily, they won’t see our value and will go elsewhere to find something they have to work a little bit harder for.

William Shakespeare

Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.

Jane Austen

I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy.

"Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is
strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I
am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.

Michael Bassey Johnson

If you can't ignore imperfections, then your imaginary ideal soulmate will always remain pending till you grow old and die.

Hazel Osmond

Jack shook his head. 'Books. What is it with women and books? My sisters were the same. They were always buying books for boys they fancied.'
Ellie bent down and picked up the stone and put it on the table. 'It's like sending a love letter without having to write it yourself,' she said softly.

William Shakespeare

Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.

Anthony Liccione

Money spent, will never out value spent time.

Davis Bunn

I have a hundred reasons to dislike this gentleman,” Erica reminded herself aloud. “And a thousand reasons more not to go courting with any man.”
Lavinia laughed at that. “Whenever has a woman’s heart listened to her head?

Jerome K. Jerome

A woman never thoroughly cares for her
lover until he has ceased to care for her; and it is not until you have
snapped your fingers in Fortune's face and turned on your heel that she
begins to smile upon you.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Women are gifts, open them with care, judge them with leniecy, test and weigh their depths, then accept those with true worth and value.

Julie Murphy

A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls.

Simone De Beauvoir

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

Dodie Smith

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.

Charlotte Brontë

I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand - they only. Know this at last.

Charlotte Brontë

What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.

Pamela Morsi

They say sweethearts and squabbles are like flowers and rain. Takes both to make it springtime.

Kunle Olusegun-Emmanuel

Mistakes are great teachers. They are stern, confident and fierce in
redirecting you from what you should not do; to what you should do.

Ron Brackin

Courtship is driven by hormones; marriage is sustained by humility and self-sacrifice.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Women who do not play hard to get are hard to get.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Courtship is an activity whereby one losses oneself … whilst trying to win someone’s love.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Courting is an activity where a man and a woman flaunt their virtues. Dating is an activity where life exposes the other’s vices.

Gail Carriger

It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.

James Joyce

Never back a woman you defend, never get quit of a friend on whom you depend, never make face to a foe till he’s rife and never get stuck to another man’s pfife.

Ellen J. Barrier

Love is ageless and colorless. It is a spiritual force that binds two hearts and two souls together as one.

Donna Lynn Hope

I challenge a man to a duel before allowing him near me, and then I take an arrow, dip it in poison, and drive it straight through his heart...But that's on a good day...when I purr and feel delightfully amorous. No need to mention what I'd do on a bad one.

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