Courtship Quotes

98 quotes by 81 authors

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship. — Joseph Addison
On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the only prominent specific… — David Lack
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… — Erica Jong
I think people can handle 150 to 200 miles a week. But something has to give somewhere. If he's a student, how's he going to… — Bill Bowerman
Friendship is also a vital and wonderful part of courtship and marriage. A relationship between a man and a woman that begins with friendship and… — Marlin K. Jensen
At 14, I discovered girls. At that time, dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship. Only… — Gene Kelly
Over the years of courtship and being together, we realized that there was no value left for anything. People just want to know what we're… — Kareena Kapoor
I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to… — George Eliot
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward. — Erica Jong
Mating Strategy is influenced by the cardinal fact that women have more at stake in sexual activity than men, because of the limited age span… — E. O. Wilson
If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed,… — E. O. Wilson
The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. — Marcel Achard
Think not because you are now wed That all your courtship's at an end. — Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza
There is no such thing as biblical dating. If you're dating, I don't care who you're dating, you're out of God's will. If you're a… — Paul Washer
The traditional flowers of courtship are the traditional flowers of the grave, delivered to the victim before the kill. The cadaver is dressed up and… — Andrea Dworkin
What our grandmothers told us about playing hard to get is true. The whole point of the game is to impress and capture. It's not… — Helen Fisher
President David O. McKay (1873-1970) observed that too many couples come to "marriage looking upon the marriage ceremony as the end of courtship instead of… — David O. McKay
As the tide of feminism that crested two decades ago recedes and the old advance-and-retreat games of courtship return, "Pride & Prejudice" speaks wistfully to… — Stephen Holden
I will not say with Lord Hale, that "The Law will admit of no rival" . . . but I will say that it is… — Joseph Story
It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship. — Michael Reagan

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