Top 50 Courtship And Marriage Quotes
#1. Friendship is also a vital and wonderful part of courtship and marriage. A relationship between a man and a woman that begins with friendship and then ripens into romance and eventually marriage will usually become an enduring, eternal friendship.
Marlin K. Jensen
#2. The ancient liturgy, with its poignant symbols and innumerable subtleties, is a prolonged courtship of the soul, enticing and drawing it onwards, leading it along a path to the mystical marriage, the wedding feast of heaven.
Peter Kwasniewski
#3. Here are officers enough in Meryton to disappoint all the young ladies in the country.
Jane Austen
#6. Courtship is driven by hormones; marriage is sustained by humility and self-sacrifice.
Ron Brackin
#8. How would that excellent mystery, wedded life, irradiate the world with its blessed influences, were the generous impulses and sentiments of courtship but perpetuated in all their exuberant fullness during the sequel of marriage!
Arthur Frederick Saunders
#9. To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour. To pass to courtship without acquaintance, to pass to marriage without courtship, is a skipping of terms reserved for those alone who tread this royal road.
Thomas Hardy
#10. Fix your eyes on Jesus and the plans he has for your life. Look ahead, and run after him with all your heart. Then look around. Whoever has kept up with you, marry that person.
Debra Fileta
#11. There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.
Tennessee Williams
#12. If you can't ignore imperfections, then your imaginary ideal soulmate will always remain pending till you grow old and die.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#13. When you least expect it is when the person you always dreamt of will finally show up.
Shannon L. Alder
#14. It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.
Gail Carriger
#15. The seeds of a happy marriage are sown in youth. Happiness does not begin at the altar; it begins during the period of youth and courtship.
David O. McKay
#16. If you want to know how the heart is related to the soul, love someone.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#17. To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.
Criss Jami
#18. They say sweethearts and squabbles are like flowers and rain. Takes both to make it springtime.
Pamela Morsi
#19. Courtship is an activity whereby one losses oneself ... whilst trying to win someone's love.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#20. 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 wanted to find out what it takes for two people to stay together for fifty years
or more. I wanted to tell not the story of courtship, but the story of marriage.
Diana Gabaldon
#22. I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.
William Shakespeare
#23. Courting is an activity where a man and a woman flaunt their virtues. Dating is an activity where life exposes the other's vices.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#24. Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo.
Peter Farb
#25. Courtship is romantic. Marriage ... is an act of will," said Pippa, taking a sip of water. "I mean, I adore Herb. But the marriage functions because we will it to. If you leave love to hold everything together, you can forget it.
Rebecca Miller
#26. Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.
William Shakespeare
#29. I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand
they only. Know this at last.
Charlotte Bronte
#30. Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
(quoted in Life After Life)
William Congreve
#31. Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest.
Cullen Hightower
#32. I won't give my heart to another girl until God shows me it's my wife.
Eric Ludy
#33. The only man meant to be in your life is a man that knows your worth.
Shannon L. Alder
#34. I shan't take advantage,' Lucius promised seriously. 'And she can't be forced into a marriage, of course. It is a new century. Unfortunately. But I am afraid that I am compelled to pursue this courtship until Antanasia realizes her place at my side. As she will.'
'I will not.
Beth Fantaskey
#35. Don't believe a man will give you the world if he doesn't even buy you flowers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#36. Leslie, don't you believe that I know who you will marry, and that I'm capable of leading you to that right man someday?
Leslie Ludy
#38. Dating becomes a lot about hiding who you really are, hiding you imperfections and in many cases, unfortunately, displaying and making primary what ought to be reserved only for marriage
Matt Chandler
#40. What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.
Charlotte Bronte
#42. There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.
Dodie Smith
#43. Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which grow up ten years later into domestic hatred.
C.S. Lewis
#45. Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit.
Joseph Addison
#46. The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.
Wilson Mizner
#47. Marriage seemed like such a small space whenever I was in it. I liked the getting married. Courtship has a plotline. But there's no plot to being married. Just the same things over and over again. Same fights, same friends, same things you do on a Saturday. The repetition would start to get to me.
Karen Joy Fowler
#48. There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
Erica Jong
#49. A virgin is a good bride. A righteous virgin is the best bride.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#50. Mistakes are great teachers. They are stern, confident and fierce in
redirecting you from what you should not do; to what you should do.
Kunle Olusegun-Emmanuel
