31 Quotes About Courtship

The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same. George Eliot

The Scotchman seemed hardly the same Farfrae who had danced with her, and walked with her, in a delicate poise between love and friendship - that period in the history of a love when alone it can be said to be unalloyed with pain. Thomas Hardy

My letters! all dead paper, mute and white! And yet they seem alive and quivering Against my tremulous hands which loose the string And let them drop down on my knee to-night. This said, -- he wished to have me in his sight Once, as a friend: this fixed a day in spring To come and touch my hand. . a simple thing, Yet I wept for it! -- this,. . the paper's light. .Said, Dear I love thee; and I sank and quailed As if God's future thundered on my past. This said, I am thine -- and so its ink has paled With lying at my heart that beat too fast. And this. . O Love, thy words have ill availed If, what this said, I dared repeat at last!. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. Dodie Smith

Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave. William Shakespeare

Here are officers enough in Meryton to disappoint all the young ladies in the country. Jane Austen

Men pretend to be “just a friend” at first, even though they want to sleep with you from day one. Otherwise they wouldn't be spending any time, money or attention on you, because these are limited resources and they need these resources to attract a mate. They can't afford to squander them. So they apply these resources to the female that looks to be their best bet to get laid. But they also know that they can't tell the woman on day one that they want to sleep with her, because she'd think it's creepy. So they play along with the illusion that it's “just a friendship” that “suddenly” developed into more, when the woman finally feels inclined to sleep with the guy “because they have a deep connection.” But that was really his goal from day one. Oliver Markus

During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking. Joshua Harris

I challenge a man to a duel before allowing him near me, and then I take an arrow, dip it in poison, and drive it straight through his heart... But that's on a good day...when I purr and feel delightfully amorous. No need to mention what I'd do on a bad one. Donna Lynn Hope

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. Julia Quinn

I just called you corny and said you were wearing a green dress. That's, like, the least flirtatious thing anyone's ever Claire LaZebnik

The first six months are what I call the La La Land phase. This is what a lot of romantic novels, songs, and movies are based upon. Enjoy the courtship, nights out, and fun. You will eventually come back to reality. Pamela Cummins

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. Daniel Willey

I have a hundred reasons to dislike this gentleman, ” Erica reminded herself aloud. “And a thousand reasons more not to go courting with any man.” Lavinia laughed at that. “Whenever has a woman’s heart listened to her head? Davis Bunn

When you decide to meet–in person–someone that you met online, would you then be taking your relationship to the 'previous' level? Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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 lov'd her, I should but teach him how to tell my story. And that would woo her. William Shakespeare

You're like a half-tamed creature, still shy of the bridle. 'Except you enthrall me, never shall be free.' But freedom is an illusion, anyway. Nenia Campbell

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

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

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

Fire should never be tempered in a female because that's what fuels her passion, causing it to ignite." He lifted my chin with his hand and stroked his thumb gently across my lips. "All a male can hope for is to be consumed by it until there is nothing left of him. Dannika Dark

I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it. Patrick Rothfuss

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

Each time a girl approached the table, Mortimer would smile. Like this: And each time the girl would shriek and run away. Kelly DiPucchio