Courtship Quotes

Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him, and if you don't you must still please-in order to avoid having one.

See how the skilful lover spreads his toils.

I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.

Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.

There is too little courtship in the world.

It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.

Always carry it in thy mind, and act upon it, as a sure maxim: "That women are timid:" And 'tis well they are--else there would beno dealing with them.

A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.

Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest.

God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse.

Giving words [is] an act of lovers.

Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes.

Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.

Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts To courtship and such fair ostents of love As shall conveniently become you there.

So much of courtship is the unspoken.