Carriages Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.

— C. L. R. James

“The business of courtship is like a tango: absurd and pure embellishment.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Only real men can handle truly delicate women.

— Allegra

Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.

— Fanny Burney

So much of courtship is the unspoken.

— Megan McCafferty

“Women are delicate creatures at the best of times moved by desires unknown to the men who place trust in them.”

— Melvin Musera

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Human courtship has some wild extremes. At one end of the spectrum, there is harassment, pestering, blackmail, and an abuse of institutional power, which…

— Catherine Wilson

“Before marriage it is their business to please men; and after, with a few exceptions, they follow the same scent, with all the persevering…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The modesty of women, which, in its most primitive form among animals, is based on sexual periodicity, is, with that periodicity, an essential condition…

— Havelock Ellis

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.

— Edward Abbey

There is too little courtship in the world.

— Vernon Lee