Top 100 Quotes About Courting
#1. I don't think courting and dating is a liability. I actually think it can be a blessing.
Rebecca St. James
#2. A werewolf is courting me with a dead rabbit. There's nothing subtle here." "Couldn't
T.J. Klune
#3. Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.
David Rockefeller
#4. Every species has a dinner date as part of courting ritual. A woman who won't let you pay for dinner is rejecting your courtship. She may think she's playing fair, or that she's being a feminist, but a very deep level, she knows that she's crossing you off her list of possibilities.
Jennifer Crusie
#5. Our dreams of a pure virtue are dissolved in a situation in which it is possible to exercise the virtue of responsibility toward a community of nations only by courting the prospective guilt of the atomic bomb.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#7. The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Andre Malraux
#8. Give her books, where other people did all the running around and courting; it was far easier to read about such matters than to experience them herself.
Sophie Dash
#9. One-and-done is the most damaging thing in college basketball. It brings money into the college game, because it kickstarts the bidding war. When you know a kid can't turn pro and is going to go to school for one year and then go pro, that's when you see everyone going to games and courting players.
Sonny Vaccaro
#10. Away from courting me - " Gabriel expanded. "I'm sorry to have made you run so fast, my dear," he said, with a grateful sense of favours
Thomas Hardy
#11. If there was more courting in marriage, there'd be fewer marriages in court. Date your mate. Today.
Rick Warren
#12. Fighting battles is like courting girls: those who make the most pretensions and are boldest usually win.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#13. What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
William Osler
#14. With consumers having ever more choice, corporations must invest more and more in courting public opinion.
Noreena Hertz
#15. If you're courting me, you have to tell me something about yourself that no one else knows."
He was silent for a moment. "I'd rather jerk-off to thoughts of you than be with anyone else.
Katie Reus
#16. One of the issues with some of these lenders is going to be, where will their provider of credit be when there's a crisis? That's why some of these smarter services, to support their operations, are courting more permanent capital. They want a source of longer-term funding that can survive a crisis.
Jamie Dimon
#18. He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.
Plutarch
#19. I don't have time for all the relations and courting and wooing bullshit," I said. "I'm a wizard. I have quests."
"Uh, you're an apprentice," Gary said. "And you're sent on errands.
T.J. Klune
#20. Let us be sure that the lady of our choice possesses certain tangible qualities that we admire; and if in other ways she falls short of our ideal, we must be patient and call to mind those qualities that first induced us to begin our courting.
Murasaki Shikibu
#21. What I personally knew about courting women could comfortably fit into a thimble without taking it off your finger first.
Patrick Rothfuss
#22. Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.
Padma Lakshmi
#23. Courting is the art of growing like mould on the one you want.
Steven Erikson
#24. People will think you're courting me.'
'Nonsense, everyone knows I don't court respectable women.
Julia Quinn
#25. What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
Walter Pater
#26. Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom
Ezra Pound
#27. A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]
Franz Kafka
#28. All things do go a-courting,
In earth, or sea, or air,
God hath made nothing single
But thee in His world so fair.
Emily Dickinson
#29. She had meant to woo him. In her own weird, unsettling way she had simply been courting him and he'd been too stupid to realize it.
Connie Brockway
#30. Courting is for those who have not declared their love for one another- should not be considered a task.
Julie Garwood
#31. I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person.
Lev Grossman
#32. Now courting's a pleasure, and parting is grief, but a false-hearted lover is worse than a thief!
Lee Smith
#33. When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.
Albert Einstein
#34. Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
Zig Ziglar
#35. I have a hundred reasons to dislike this gentleman," Erica reminded herself aloud. "And a thousand reasons more not to go courting with any man."
Lavinia laughed at that. "Whenever has a woman's heart listened to her head?
Davis Bunn
#36. Fish and chip night was a Kumar family tradition that dated back to when Jaget was courting his wife and they used to meet in the last white English-owned fish and chip shop in Wembley on the basis that none of their relatives would go in there. "It
Ben Aaronovitch
#37. With his eyes and those hands there won't be a woman safe in all the world when he starts hunting after the ladies.'
'Courting, dear,' my father corrected gently.
'Semantics,' she shrugged.
Patrick Rothfuss
#38. I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events.
Leonard Cohen
#39. I am sorry, but it took me months of courting to get him. He is a prize to be won and mine to use as I see fit.
K.A. Merikan
#40. I'm not courting death; I've far too many books left to read.
Alison Sinclair
#41. When we were courting, I told my wife: 'I could live in your eyes.' She said: 'You'd be at home; there's a stye in one of them.'
Les Dawson
#42. An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be made, it must be received; and we cannot have this gift except, perhaps, by supplication, by courting, by creating within ourselves that 'begging bowl' to which the gift is drawn.
Lewis Hyde
#43. But it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction!
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#44. The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#45. When people are courting, many of them think that when they get married, that's it, and everything will be on Easy Street. But you really have to work even harder once you're married, because the challenges are that much greater.
Morris Chestnut
#46. Angus was courting me with lines that stabbed deep in lonely, barren places. Like an unfair conqueror, he was delivering his words with an accent that had me dreaming of castles and lochs, and strong thighs under a rough kilt.
Cheryl R Cowtan
#47. Courting is always difficult when the one being courted has an elderly female relative in the house; they tend to mutter or cackle or bum cigarettes or, in the worst cases, get out the family photograph album, an act of aggression in the sex war which ought to be banned by a Geneva Convention.
Terry Pratchett
#48. That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!
Thomas Hardy
#49. I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.
Benjamin Franklin
#50. I damaged my health during 'Les Mis,' which I didn't want to mention in case it seemed like I was courting sympathy.
Anne Hathaway
#51. Global inequality means that while the wealthy have too few needs, the needy have too little wealth. Capitalism is stymied, courting long-term disaster.
Benjamin Barber
#52. When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.
Cate Blanchett
#53. On a serious level, I wouldn't tell the press if I was in a relationship or not. I wouldn't ever reveal that, because it takes you down a certain road ... I have no desire to be courting the press with my love life.
Kit Harington
#54. These are six ways of courting defeat, which must be carefully noted by the general who has attained a responsible post.
Sun Tzu
#55. Kerry was here in Los Angeles. He was courting the Spanish vote by speaking Spanish. And he showed people he could be boring in two languages.
Jay Leno
#56. Though I was more than willing to share my man sexually, I couldn't imagine him dating, holding hands, and courting another woman.
Jessica N. Watkins
#57. It may be a lot more personally rewarding to focus on the marvelous new equipment, but the focus should be on customers - attracting them, courting them, rewarding them, understanding them and binding them to you.
John Romero
#58. Szpindel's eyebrows drew together like courting caterpillars.
Peter Watts
#59. [S]ongs must be measured by their utility. Any jaunty little tune that can get you from one point to another as you drive, or get you through the dishes, or that can illuminate or dignify your courting, I always appreciate.
-interview, 1995
Leonard Cohen
#60. Please let him look. I didn't need to hide from someone courting oblivion as ardently as I am.
Gillian Flynn
#61. Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.
James Surowiecki
#62. When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#63. We're not courting trouble," I say. "Flirting with it, at most.
Mackenzi Lee
#64. Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk - real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.
Jack Kerouac
#65. Well, to be fair, he's in a situation where intelligence does rather go out the window," Cross said. "I have a theory that women actually siphon off our cleverness during the courting phase, and keep it for themselves. Which is why they always seem to see the endgame before we do.
Sarah MacLean
#66. If you don't take the lamp of awareness with you, you are going to create a hell around you. Light your lamp wherever you gocourting, not courting, that is not the point. Wherever you go, whatsoever you do, always do it in the inner light, with awareness.
Rajneesh
#67. When my husband Edgar and I were courting, he said he couldn't wait to have a baby. It was only after we were married that he changed his mind and decided that I should have the baby.
Joan Rivers
#68. Dating is fun. It's light: There's courting; there's the interesting, exciting text messaging and flirting. There's no weight. When you start getting into relationships, you really start having to consider each other in your lives, and I think that's really important.
Denise Vasi
#69. These are the six ways of courting defeat - neglect to estimate the enemy's strength; want of authority; defective training; unjustifiable anger; nonobservance of discipline; failure to use picked men ...
Sun Tzu
#70. Of all the kings and emperors who had come courting her with promises of wealth beyond imagining, it was the knight's gift, of seeing her for who she was - not what she was - that won her heart.
Sarah J. Maas
#71. If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
Ken Livingstone
#72. The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to keep up with the young men who were courting my wife.
Clive James
#73. There are three way of courting ruin
women, gambling, and calling in technicians.
Georges Pompidou
#74. It's sad that children cannot know their parents when they were younger; when they were loving, courting, and being nice to one another. By the time children are old enough to observe, the romance has all too often faded or gone underground.
Virginia Satir
#75. Obviously he's courting the entire family," West told her. "I can't speak for everyone else, but I for one feel thoroughly wooed." Kathleen's
Lisa Kleypas
#76. When I first got interested in comics at the time I was studying architecture and I discovered comics as a medium through listening to Art who was courting me by reading me Little Nemo and Krazy Kat by George Herriman. It was really very effective.
Francoise Mouly
#77. Damen held himself very still. This easy way of speaking of Auguste was new, and he didn't want to disturb it.
After a moment, Laurent said, 'He would have liked you.'
'Even after I started courting his little brother?' said Damen carefully.
C.S. Pacat
#78. Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.
Charley Pride
#79. There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.
Laurence Sterne
#80. Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
Dick Cavett
#81. Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.
Dambisa Moyo
#82. 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
#83. You got someone else courting you?"
"No." The fork she'd been scrubbing slid from her hand, returning to the murky depths. "But then, I wasn't sure I had you courting me, either. I seem to recall you expressing a number of objections to my suitability in the past.
Karen Witemeyer
#84. A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all ... The good stuff can be 'love at first sight' - in need of study, courting and claiming. And like a love note, it's nice to have things in writing.
Robert Genn
#85. Courting is a much sweeter term than 'dating'. It sounds like it has more intent, more like an agreement that two people enter into with a future in mind.
Kim Cattrall
#86. She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and it would leave a bruise. So as we sat in the afternoon hour, beneath that fragrant linden bower, I had to chase all of the leafs that fell away.
Roman Payne
#87. A whole woman will always attract a whole man. And when they touch, they will fuse to create a whole marriage. Ultimately, when the time is right, they will produce whole children.
T.D. Jakes
#88. God will bring the right person into your life at the right time. Always believe that! If they are not there, God isn't finished yet!
Shannon L. Alder
#89. Careful," he said. "If you keep blushing like that I may do more than just draw you.
Nenia Campbell
#90. The less we love her when we woo her,
The more we draw a woman in,
Alexander Pushkin
#91. I may have entered her body, but now I want to enter her mind.
Vikas Swarup
#92. A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself.
Shannon L. Alder
#94. I took her to bed with silk and song
'Lay still, my love, I won't be long,
I must prepare my body for passion.'
'O, your body you give, but all else you ration ...
Roman Payne
#95. If you have to convince someone that you are their soulmate then you didn't realize the thousand other guys applying for the job.
Shannon L. Alder
#96. Getting even with the person that broke your heart will never give you peace. The only thing that will heal your wounds is believing that God loves you enough to bring someone else into your life to respect you and love you in the way you deserve!
Shannon L. Alder
#97. Unbecoming or not, I dare say that if a harmonica chases away a suitor, he was no suitor at all in the first place.
Sarah Price
#98. My mind may be sober, but my confidence is high!
Habeeb Akande
#99. You don't talk much, do you?" she blurted out.
"I didn't think there was a need. You seem to be holding up both our ends of the conversation admirably.
Julia Quinn
#100. He was 'susceptible' to her. If he wasn't careful, he might end up nursing a full-blown interest.
Courtney Milan
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