COURTSHIP

Related Subjects: Coquetry, Cupid, Kissing, Love, Marriage, Wedding

1. Those marriages generally abound most with love and constancy that are preceded by a long courtship.—ADDISON, The Spectator
   

2. The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved, kind, with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing motions of the soul, rise in the pursuit.—ADDISON
   

3. In courtship a man pursues a woman until she catches him.—Anonymous
   

4. Romances paint at full length people's wooings,
   But only give a bust of marriages:
   For no one cares for matrimonial cooings.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

5. If you cannot inspire a woman with love of yourself, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.—C. C. COLTON
   

6. Barkis is willin'.—DICKENS, David Copperfield
   

7. With women worth being won, the softest lover ever best succeeds.—AARON HILL
   

8. I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.—WASHINGTON IRVING
   

9. The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.—DOUGLAS JERROLD, Douglas Jerrold's Wit
   

10. Follow a shadow, it still flies you;
    Seem to fly it, it will pursue:
    So court a mistress, who denies you;
    Let her alone, she will court you.—BEN JONSON, Follow a Shadow
    

11. If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning.—LONGFELLOW, The Courtship of Miles Standish
    

12. And with my advice, faith I wish you'd take me.—SAMUEL LOVER, Widow Machree

13. If I speak to thee in friendship's name,
    Thou think'st I speak too coldly;
    If I mention love's devoted flame,
    Thou say'st I speak too boldly.—THOMAS MOORE, How Shall I Woof
    

14. Faint heart never won fair lady.—Proverb
    

15. He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin.—Proverb
    

16. Happy's the wooing, that's not long in doing.—Proverb
    

17. Courting and wooing, brings dallying and doing.—Proverb
    

18. Let a woman once give you a task and you are hers, heart and soul; all your care and trouble lend new charms to her for whose sake they are taken—To rescue, to revenge, to instruct, or to protect a woman, is all the same as to love her.—J. P. RICHTER
    

19. My story being done,
    She gave me for my pains a world of sighs:
    She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange,
    'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful:
    She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd
    That Heaven had made her such a man; she thank'd me,
    And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,
    I should teach him how to tell my story
    And that would woo her.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

20. Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure.—SHAKESPEARE, The Taming of the Shrew
    

21. Lest too light winning Make the prize light.—SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest
    

22. That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
    If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.—SHAKESPEARE, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
    

23. You think that you are Ann's suitor: that you are the pursuer and she the pursued; that it is your part to woo, to persuade, to prevail, to overcome. Fool: it is you who are the pursued, the marked-down quarry, the destined prey.—BERNARD SHAW, Man and Superman
    

24. Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.—STERNE, Sentimental Journey