Suitors Quotes
25 quotes by 23 authors
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Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always…
— Martial
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Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that their suitors have…
— Christine de Pizan
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I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party in an endangered,…
— Maile Meloy
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I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with…
— Benjamin Franklin
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If you were to do a line-up of past suitors, it's definitely a very eclectic group, is all I'll say.
— Sophia Myles
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Opportunity cost is a huge filter in life. If you've got two suitors who are really eager to have you and one is way the…
— Charlie Munger
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The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.
— Margaret of Valois
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We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
— Malcolm De Chazal
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Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at…
— Emily Dickinson
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Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in…
— William Shakespeare
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It's always gratifying to share a hobby with a friend, and pining for erstwhile suitors falls into that category. In the months to come, Libby…
— Patricia Marx
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Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare in awe at…
— Libba Bray
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I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backward, cowardly, and mentally warped that will be…
— Mary Ann Shaffer
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I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic system was (rightfully)…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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(The tree bend over. Suddenly, a hiss and a meow sounded an instant before two cats darted off across the backyard.) Look, Lanie, it’s Mr.…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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As I watched Bill, waiting with apparent calm for death to come to him, I had a flash of him as I'd known him: the…
— Charlaine Harris
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I don't need love or a man to complete me,and someday, you'll find that true for yourself. Suitors will come and go, but you will…
— Amanda Hocking
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You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.
— Louisa May Alcott
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IAGO: She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will and yet was never loud, Never lack'd gold and yet went never…
— William Shakespeare
Who Wrote These Suitors Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 25 Suitors Quotes as follows: