Best 203 quotes in «courtship quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

So much of courtship is the unspoken.

See how the skilful lover spreads his toils.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

A kiss is the only thing you can throw at someone without being held criminally responsible.

A kiss a day keeps your wife's wrath away.

A kiss is the easiest thing to throw at someone because its weight is love.

All is fair in love and war; and if this is not love, it was the usual thing that stands as a counterpart for it.

All his flowers have been awaiting me on my arrival. I don't know whether to feel flattered or hunted.

Allow your relationship to progress at its own pace. Enjoy each moment of each date, the courtship, the friendship, and the natural progression to commitment. If it is meant to be, it will happen.

Admit only your victories until you have hooked their interest, then you draw them closer and admit the sort of failings that reflect well on a fellow, sentimental failings: that was the theory of courtship the young master had formulated...

All I really need,” he continued, “is for you to act as a deterrent.” “A deterrent?” she choked out. “A human shield, if you will.” “What?” “I cannot be left alone with that woman,” he said, and he felt no remorse at the low desperation in his voice. “Please, if you have any care for your fellow man.” Her lips clamped together in a suspicious line. “I’m not certain what I get out of the equation.” “You mean besides the joy of my delightful company?” “Yes,” she said, with an impressive lack of inflection, “besides that.

Are they trained to treat everyone as a servant?' 'Probably. That doesn't make you into one,

A sword can only pierce the body, but love can pierce the soul.

A virgin is a good bride. A righteous virgin is the best bride.

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.

A spouse is someone you can live with; a soulmate is someone you can't live without.

A sweet wedding cake does not guarantee a sweet marriage.

A thousand ways to please your wife boil down to two words: “Yes, dear.

A wife who discomforts you with truth is better than a mistress who massages you with lies.

Being married is effortless; being happily married takes work.

But in recognizing her ignorance of the ratio between words to women and deeds to women in the ethical code of the bachelor of the club, she forgot that human nature in the gross differs little with situation, and that a gift which, if the germs were lacking, no amount of training in clubs and coteries could supply, was mother-wit like her own.

Bakit kaya ganun? Liligawan nila tayo. Papakitaan ng magandang ugali. Yung gagawin pa tayong prinsesa ng buhay nila. Yung ipaparamdam nila sa atin na hindi nila kayang mabuhay kung wala tayo. Tapos kapag na-fall na tayo at handa na natin silang mahalin, bigla na lang mababago ang lahat. We're not princesses anymore.

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

Careful,” he said. “If you keep blushing like that I may do more than just draw you.

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

Birds build nests because they cannot fly forever.

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

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.

Dating becomes a lot about hiding who you really are, hiding you imperfections and in many cases, unfortunately, displaying and making primary what ought to be reserved only for marriage

Diamonds are a girl's best friend until love introduces her to her soulmate.

Dating with no regrets means keeping your focus on Jesus, so that no matter what happens in your relationships with others, your relationship with God remains intact.

Don't ask for a girl's hand in marriage and forget to ask for her leg too.

Don't be afraid of marrying the right person even if they come from the wrong background.