Courtship Quote by Zoë Heller Download Open image ““If this was cynical, then we must allow that all courtship is cynical.”” — Zoë Heller ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Courtship Cynicism Pessimism Romance
“Human courtship is about showing off what you have, and hoping that somebody, somewhere can appreciate it, if it's about anything.” — Bradford Tuckfield Copy Share Image
“The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish for its… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I may be cynical when I say that very rarely is the beloved more than a shaping spirit for the lover's dreams.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Courtship is the time during which the girl decides whether or not she can do any better. Anonymous” — Shmuley Boteach Copy Share Image
“Courtship is an activity whereby one losses oneself … whilst trying to win someone’s love.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“There was no need for courtship; they simply met one day and were together after that.” — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“Let it be said it was a whirlwind courtship. Let it also be called unwise. But” — Christina Boyd Copy Share Image
“Courtship had a new rule book. Somewhere. She’d never read it and doubted anyone else in her generation had either.” — Carrie Lomax Copy Share Image
“A woman did not feel jealousy if her emotions were not engaged. And a wise man did not let it fester.” — c.l. wilson Copy Share Image
“That was, perhaps, the most unfeeling proposal she could imagine. The man was cynical, insensitive, condescending, rude. And she was definitely going to marry… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“All my life I have been the sort of person in whom people confide. And all my life I have been flattered by this… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
It's similar to the way you feel cuddling an infant or a kitten, when you want to squeeze it so hard you'd kill it... — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
“Music, together with certain sorts of majestic landscape, had a well-known tendency to induce such faux-sublime moments: artificial intimations of transcendent truths, grandiose hunches… — Zoe Heller Copy Share Image
“Being alone is not the most awful thing in the world. You visit your museums and cultivate your interests and remind yourself how lucky… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
For most people, honesty is such an unusual departure from their standard modus operandi - such an abherration in their workaday mendacity - that… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
Somewhere between sanity and madness lays a fine line, for some it is a tightrope walked daily, a fight for balance to be won… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
“But that I should have ended up in a place like this seems too custom-made a nightmare to be the work of mere ill… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness. — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
“...elegance loses its power in the presence of the properly stupid...” — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
“The conclusion of Dowell's narrative offers not a resolution, so much as a plangent confirmation of complexities. While Ford would certainly have agreed with… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
“I could feel Monika nudging me furiously at this point, but I refused to look at her. I wasn’t feeling particularly reverent about my… — Zoe Heller Copy Share Image
There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different. — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
“Courtship is an activity whereby one losses oneself … whilst trying to win someone’s love.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship,… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
So far, I haven't met anyone, and with an average fifteen-hour workday schedule, I hardly think it's probable... For the sake of my making… — Raymond Burr Copy Share Image
I didn't want to tell the story of what makes two people come together, although that's a theme of great power and universality. I… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Women are angels, wooing: Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing: That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this-- Men… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The first six months are what I call the La La Land phase. This is what a lot of romantic novels, songs, and movies… — Pamela Cummins Copy Share Image
Ladies, A real man does more than loving and caring for you¦He loves Jesus more than you could do. — Loveleah Copy Share Image
Over the years of courtship and being together, we realized that there was no value left for anything. People just want to know what… — Kareena Kapoor Copy Share Image
The loss of courtship in modern days - like, people don't court anybody anymore. There's no beauty about it. — Sofia Vassilieva Copy Share Image
“Careful,” he said. “If you keep blushing like that I may do more than just draw you.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
