Best 203 quotes in «courtship quotes» category

This was different. He didn't want a woman. He wanted her. And he supposed that if he had to spend the afternoon being strange, sad, and disfigured just to be in her company, it would be well worth it. Then he remembered the wart. He turned to Miss Wynter and said firmly, "I am not getting a wart." Really, a man had to draw the line somewhere.

To patch up a relationship, understanding is the needle, and love is the thread.

Understanding is the bridge between two minds; love is the bridge between two souls.

Treat marriage like a diamond necklace; if broken, fix it, but do not throw it away.

We teach our girls to quarantine their emotions— isolate heart and reason or risk perceptions of hysteria. We're taught that our anger is a misconception, that our discontent will pass as long as we smile pretty, clean up nice, and play into this courtship dichotomy. This twisted game of act and receive where your role is assigned at birth. Well, this is me telling you that the only winning move is not to play.

Walking towards love is wiser than falling into it.

Vin looked down at the handkerchief. When a nobleman wants to court a lady seriously, he gives her a handkerchief.

What is wrong with the [tale of] Two Swords?" he asked, even more surprised. "Don't you care for it?" "There is too bloody much romance in it," she said curtly. Ah, well, here was the crux of it, apparently. "Don't you like romance?" he ventured. She looked as though she were trying to decide if she should weep or, as he had earlier predicted, stick him with whatever blade she could lay her, hand on. "I don't know," she said briskly. "I see," he said, though he didn't. He wished, absently, that he'd had at least one sister. He was very well versed in what constituted courtly behavior and appropriate formal wooing practices, thanks to his father's insistence on many such lectures delivered by a dour man whose only acquaintance with women had likely come from reading about them in a book, but he had absolutely no idea how to proceed with a woman whose first instinct when faced with something that made her uncomfortable was to draw her sword. ... "I'll stop provoking you, but I will have the answer to a question. Why do you think most men woo?" "Because they have no sword skill and need something with which to occupy their time?

What I personally knew about courting women could comfortably fit into a thimble without taking it off your finger first.

When someone steals your heart not even the law can help you.

When a gentleman spends quite some time telling me in detail about his father's courtship of his mother, I have to assume there is some moral for me in the tale. Since in this case that courtship consisted primarily of his father insisting repeatedly they were to marry and his mother refusing him almost as often, I take the moral to be that there is very little point in refusing, since it would only lead to the question being repeated until I agreed to it out of sheer exhaustion.

When the heart says “yes” it is difficult for the mind to say “no.

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

When you fall for someone not even reason can help you up.

Whilst ladies persist in maintaining the strictly defensive condition, men must naturally, as it were, take the oppposite line, that of attack; otherwise, if both parties held aloof, there would be no more marriages; and the two hosts would die in their respective inaction, without ever coming to a battle. Thus it is evident that as the ladies will not, the men must take the offensive... Is it not time that the ladies should take an innings? Let us widowers and bachelors form an association to declare that for the next hundred years we will make love no longer. Let the young women come and make love to us; let them write us verses; let them ask us to dance, get us ices and cups of tea, and help us on with our cloaks at the hall-door; and if they are eligible, we may perhaps be induced to yield and say, 'La, Miss Hopkins - I really never - I am so agitated - Ask papa!

Wonderful, darling Oksana, allow me to kiss you!" the encouraged blacksmith said and pressed her to him with the intention of snatching a kiss; but Oksana withdrew her cheeks, which were a very short distance from the blacksmith's lips, and pushed him away. "What more do you want? He's got honey and asks for a spoon! Go away, your hands are harder than iron. And you smell of smoke. I suppose you've made me all sooty.

Women never stalk men; they just research them intensely.

Wooing a woman is like fishing; the quality of your catch is determined by the quality of your bait.

...while Norah described to me her plans for carpets and curtains, or showed me the sample of bedspread material she had hung over a chair to see if she could live with it. When I began to know her, I wondered if their courtship had been, for her, something of the same -- my brother draped over a chair for the statutory length of time, to see if she could live with him. In that case she might have noticed that he did not really go with the surroundings; perhaps she did see this, but knew that he would fade to a better match.

Why marry an abuser when you can marry a nurturer? Why marry a belittler when you can marry an encourager? Why marry a hater when you can marry a supporter? Why marry an intimidator when you can marry a defender? Why marry a tormentor when you can marry a protector? Why marry a betrayer when you can marry a helper? Why marry a quitter when you can marry a winner? Why marry a loser when you can marry a victor? Why marry a follower when you can marry a leader?

Women are the best thieves you will ever meet; they steal your heart and your last name, but never get to spend the night in jail.

You don't need to move mountains when love will fly you over.

You can marry outside of your race, but never marry outside of your values.

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.

You only need to steal a woman's heart if she won't give it to you willingly.

Your wife is smarter than you; know this, and you will live happily ever after.

Ah, fool! faint heart fair lady ne'er could win.

You might be surrounded by clouds, but you'll be like sunshine to me.

Young love-making--that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to--the things whence its subtle interlacing are swung--are scarcely perceptible; momentary touches of finger-tips, meetings of rays from blue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases, lightest changes of cheek and lip, faintest tremors. The web itself is made of spontaneous beliefs and indefinable joys, yearnings of one life to another, visions of completeness, indefinite trust.

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

A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.

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.

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.

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.

If most of your courtship attempts have succeeded, you must be a very attractive and charming person who has been aiming too low.

Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo.

I've worn so many things, I've tried on so many things...I've spent probably thousand of hours in fittings. I can know so quickly how something's going to feel on me, look on me. It's a pretty fast courtship. I say yes or no pretty quickly.

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.

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

So much of courtship is the unspoken.

Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.

The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.

See how the skilful lover spreads his toils.

A bagel shop isn't the most romantic spot to tell a girl you like her. But that night romance wasn't the priority. Our time there wasn't intended to be mushy. I didn't propose marriage or say I was madly in love with her, and she didn't swoon. What I did tell her was that through our friendship I'd grown to respect her.

With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.

88% of men impress to undress. 88% of women undress to impress.

A beautiful face is temporary; a beautiful soul is forever.