"We love flattery, even though we are not……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

More Courted Quotes

This quote is filed under Courted Quotes, one of 29 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge… — Mary Astell
• Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity. — William Blake
• A fool and her money are soon courted. — Helen Rowland
• Although we've used the concept brand communities a couple of times, it's important to reiterate that communities aren't created, they… — Henry Jenkins
• But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and… — John Milton
• Then she declared loudly, "Smoke break!" and everyone's eyes came to us, some of them shocked seeing as these days… — Kristen Ashley
• If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced. — Mary Blakely
• You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if… — George Eliot
• Non-violence is backed by the theory of soul-force in which suffering is courted in the hope of ultimately winning over… — Bhagat Singh
• By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching… — Os Guinness
• What happened to the good old days of "Woman as passive recipient?" What happened to being courted? What happened to… — Cathy Guisewite
• I met my wife [Sukhinder Kaur Gill] in Bombay at an official function. And then we courted for three years.… — Glenn Turner

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