Best Courtship Quotes

98 Courtship quotes by 80 unique authors

We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The seeds of a happy marriage are sown in youth. Happiness does not begin at the altar; it begins during the period of youth and… — David O. McKay
I don’t believe in courtship.It’s a waste of time. If I love the person, I’ll tell her right away. But for you, I’ll make an… — Ferdinand Marcos
Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after. — Hesiod
In England the boy pats his adored one on the back and says softly, "I don't object, you know." If he is quite mad with… — George Mikes
Sexual behavior in our species goes through three characteristic phases: pair formation, precopulatory activity, and copulation, usually but not always in that order. The pair-formation… — Desmond Morris
With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely. — Mary McCarthy
This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears. — Emily Murphy
Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him, and if you… — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to… — Sarah Fielding
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 office above the… — Bharati Mukherjee
Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo. — Peter Farb
The Gerat Bald Swamp Hedgehog of Billericay displays, in courtship, his single prickle and does impressions of Holiday Inn desk clerks. Since this means him… — Mike Harding
The Ruffed Pandanga of Borneo and Rotherham spreads out his feathers in his courtship dance and imitates Winston Churchill and Tommy Cooper on one leg.… — Mike Harding
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. — William Congreve
I'm wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that… — Seth MacFarlane
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. — Alexander Pope
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. — Laurence Sterne
In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow. — Helen Fisher
By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One… — Dorothy Parker
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity… — Khalil Gibran
Darwin speculated that “music tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are excited… — Oliver Sacks
Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced… — Germaine Greer
Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably. — William Shakespeare
The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the… — O. Henry

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