Courtship Quotes
98 quotes by 81 authors
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Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
— Joseph Addison
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
— Erica Jong
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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
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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
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The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.
— Marcel Achard
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Think not because you are now wed That all your courtship's at an end.
— Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I will not say with Lord Hale, that "The Law will admit of no rival" . . . but I will say that it is…
— Joseph Story
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It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.
— Michael Reagan
Who Wrote These Courtship Quotes
81 authors contributed a total of 98 Courtship Quotes, led by these top contributors: