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.
1956 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.
4013 Joshua Harris
Do you see a theme emerging? Women like flowers; men like food!
2417 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.
4282 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.
1052 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.
4875 Michael Bassey Johnson
If you can't ignore imperfections, then your imaginary ideal soulmate will always remain pending till you grow old and die.
1328 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.
3222 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?
1622 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.
1226 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.
2173 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.
2715 Dodie Smith
There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.
2576 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.
2795 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.
3898 Pamela Morsi
They say sweethearts and squabbles are like flowers and rain. Takes both to make it springtime.
2565 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.
4505 Ron Brackin
Courtship is driven by hormones; marriage is sustained by humility and self-sacrifice.
3071 Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Courtship is an activity whereby one losses oneself … whilst trying to win someone’s love.
3270 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.
2658 Gail Carriger
It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.
4788 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.
2046 Ellen J. Barrier
Love is ageless and colorless. It is a spiritual force that binds two hearts and two souls together as one.
3567 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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