Courtship Quote by Laurence Sterne

So much of courtship is the unspoken.

— Megan McCafferty

Courtship is exciting and romantic because it thrives on the edge of disaster. It co-exists with the threat that, at any moment, it could…

— Karen Scalf Linamen

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

— William Congreve

“One way to demonstrate courtship as a matter of course in an established relationship is to remember that courtship is the act of trying…

— Sarah Wendell

Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.

— Samuel Richardson

Courtship, properly understood, is the process whereby both the male and the female are brought into that state of sexual tumescence which is a…

— Havelock Ellis

There is too little courtship in the world. ... For courtship means a wish to stand well in the other person's eyes, and, what…

— Vernon Lee

Courtship is a commitment - it's a promise not to play games with another person's heart.

— Joshua Harris

When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.

— Helen Rowland

If most of your courtship attempts have succeeded, you must be a very attractive and charming person who has been aiming too low.

— Geoffrey Miller

“Unlike when people lived in small communities and could not escape their past behavior, we live in an age of anonymous one-time encounters, and…

— Gavin de Becker

In courtship a man pursues a woman until she catches him

— Proverb