Wooing Quotes

32 quotes by 28 authors

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' — Wystan Hugh Auden
Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing… — Washington Irving
Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages. — Lord Byron
If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate… — Marie Stopes
The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to… — Rene Dubos
Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heaven is not here, it's There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next.… — Elisabeth Elliot
It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she most confides inâ€”her… — Anna Godbersen
One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity. — Charles Brenton Huggins
Regardless of where you are tonight, God is with you. God is wooing you. God wants you to experience Him. Whatever you are going through… — Lysa TerKeurst
I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her. — Cesar Romero
Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart, And press a suit with passion, Is not a woman's part. If man come… — William C. Bryant
And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair. Wha does the utmost that he can Will whyles do mair. — Robert Burns
But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one to bid him… — Walter Raleigh
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will… — Ben Jonson
Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing. — Richard Harris Barham
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
My godchild Zoe, age 6, suddenly said: "Can you describe what romance is?" I talked about wooing, and yearning, and she sighed and leaned back,… — Sark
Voluptuous bloom and fragrance rare The summer to its rose may bring; Far sweeter to the wooing air The hidden violet of spring. Still, still… — Bayard Taylor

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