“ Better be courted and jilted Than never be courted at all. ”
- Thomas Campbell- Copy
- 3.8K
“ And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair. Wha does the utmost that he can Will whyles do mair. ”
- Robert Burns- Copy
- 1.3K
“ She that with poetry is won, Is but a desk to write upon; And what men say of her they mean No more than on the thing they lean. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
- 3.8K
“ It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
- 1.8K
“ There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage, just like the rhythm of a courtship — only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses… ”
- Erica Jong- Copy
- 738
“ Duncan Gray cam here to woo, Ha, ha, the wooing o't! On blithe Yuletide when we were fou, Ha, ha, the wooing o't! Maggie coost her head fu' high, Looked asklent and unco skeigh, Gart poor Duncan stand abeigh: Ha, ha! the wooing o't! ”
- Robert Burns- Copy
- 714
“ The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. ”
- Marcel Achard- Copy
- 3.9K
“ There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.9K
“ There is a tide in the affairs of women Which, taken at the flood, leads - God knows where. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 2.5K
“ But yet she listen'd — 'tis enough — Who listens once will listen twice;Her heart, be sure, is not of ice,And one refusal no rebuff. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 3.3K
“ If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 615
“ She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else. ”
- Andre Gide- Copy
- 2.8K
“ I've been dating since I was fifteen. I'm exhausted. Where is he? ”
- Kristin Davis- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Throughout our courtship, Kenny told me that he had proof that Saddam Hussein was a threat because he possessed weapons of mass destruction,... I told him, you had me at weapons.'. ”
- Renee Zellweger- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Pleasant the snaffle of Courtship, improving the manners and carriage, But the colt who is wise will abstain from the terrible thorn-bit of marriage. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
- 2.9K
“ With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life. ”
- Marge Piercy- Copy
- 2.5K
“ This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears. ”
- Emily Murphy- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. ”
- Laurence Sterne- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. ”
- William Congreve- Copy
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