Wooing Quotes
32 Wooing quotes by 27 unique authors
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'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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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
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Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.
— Lord Byron
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If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she most confides in—her…
— Anna Godbersen
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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
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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
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I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.
— Cesar Romero
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.
— Richard Harris Barham
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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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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
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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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Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.
— Maureen Dowd
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Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.
— William Shakespeare
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I loved taking off. In my own house, I seemed to be often looking for a place to hide - sometimes from the children but…
— Alice Munro
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I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.
— William Shakespeare
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Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean. Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor, and in the…
— Rumi
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