In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals. — Peter R. Grant Copy Share Image
“And I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“an indefinite courtship soon injures a woman’s position and credit, sooner than you think.’ ‘Baptista,” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking. — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“There was no need for courtship; they simply met one day and were together after that.” — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Throughout our courtship, Kenny told me that he had proof that Saddam Hussein was a threat because he possessed weapons of mass… — Renee Zellweger Copy Share Image
Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love,… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Then as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in light. And the heart embraces what is should flee. Forgetting it once had… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“I have a hundred reasons to dislike this gentleman,” Erica reminded herself aloud. “And a thousand reasons more not to go courting… — T. Davis Bunn Copy Share Image
The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo. — Peter Farb Copy Share Image
“You're like a half-tamed creature, still shy of the bridle. 'Except you enthrall me, never shall be free.' But freedom is an… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
A town, before it can be plundered and, deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“If you were to succeed in prolonging the deliriously ecstatic puppy-dog love stage of the first months of courtship through-out the entire… — Courtney Maum Copy Share Image
I do like the idea of the novel of repressed college students being a contemporary novel of courtship! I guess what I… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
There is too little courtship in the world. ... For courtship means a wish to stand well in the other person's eyes,… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
But indeed an old religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was in his youth an inland man; one that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Fire should never be tempered in a female because that's what fuels her passion, causing it to ignite." He lifted my chin… — Dannika Dark Copy Share Image
O days remember'd well! remember'd all! The bitter sweet, the honey and the gall; Those garden rambles in the silent night, Those… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“You’ve always been so agreeable,” he remarked with something of a rueful tone. “I don’t understand why you haven’t told me to… — Kathryn Smith Copy Share Image
“My letters! all dead paper, mute and white! And yet they seem alive and quivering Against my tremulous hands which loose the… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“Rake,” came the succinct reply. “Oh, all right,” Lillian grumbled. “I suppose he is a rake. But that may not be an… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Not all man who courts you, loves you. Some are just testing your stupidity — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Love has little to do with romance and everything to do with honor.” — Jesikah Sundin Copy Share Image
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. — Marcel Achard Copy Share Image
I haven't been to a job interview since I was 16 years old. When I was approached by Givenchy it was more… — Ozwald Boateng Copy Share Image
The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. — Wilson Mizner Copy Share Image