Best Courtship Quotes
98 Courtship quotes by 80 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.
— Emily Murphy
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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
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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
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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
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Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo.
— Peter Farb
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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
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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
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Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
— William Congreve
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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
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
— Alexander Pope
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Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
— Laurence Sterne
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In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow.
— Helen Fisher
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.
— William Shakespeare
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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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