Top 100 Quotes About Courtship
#2. No matter where we are today or what mistakes we've made in the past, He has given us everything we need to glorify Him right now.
Joshua Harris
#3. 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
#4. Do you see a theme emerging? Women like flowers; men like food!
Joshua Harris
#5. Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
(quoted in Life After Life)
William Congreve
#6. Thou Shall Not Get Killed During courtship, partners are predisposed to anticipate their
Stan Tatkin
#7. 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
#8. Love has little to do with romance and everything to do with honor.
Jesikah Sundin
#9. Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest.
Cullen Hightower
#10. I won't give my heart to another girl until God shows me it's my wife.
Eric Ludy
#11. The only man meant to be in your life is a man that knows your worth.
Shannon L. Alder
#12. Dates were like deep friendships filmed in timelapse, one-night stands were like express-courtships from courtship to dissolution... When I'd entered my last relationship at twenty, we'd all been new and shiny. Now I was meeting people who had... stories.
Anya Ulinich
#13. I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
George Bernard Shaw
#14. 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
#15. Don't believe a man will give you the world if he doesn't even buy you flowers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#16. I asked of Echo 't other day (Whose words are few and often funny), What to a novice she could say Of courtship, love, and matrimony. Quoth Echo, plainly, Matter-o'-money.
John Godfrey Saxe
#17. Never back a woman you defend, never get quit of a friend on whom you depend, never make face to a foe till he's rife and never get stuck to another man's pfife.
James Joyce
#18. A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls.
Julie Murphy
#19. The first six months are what I call the La La Land phase. This is what a lot of romantic novels, songs, and movies are based upon. Enjoy the courtship, nights out, and fun. You will eventually come back to reality.
Pamela Cummins
#20. Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
Laurence Sterne
#21. 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
#22. All his flowers have been awaiting me on my arrival. I don't know whether to feel flattered or hunted.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#24. What I personally knew about courting women could comfortably fit into a thimble without taking it off your finger first.
Patrick Rothfuss
#25. Let your children see you kiss. Let them see you embrace. Let them overhear your teasing, your gentle rebukes, even your well-intentioned jealousy. Domestic courtship reinforces the notion that people are together because they want to be together, not because it is the decent, practical thing to do.
Robin R. Meyers
#26. I will not say with Lord Hale, that "The Law will admit of no rival" ... but I will say that it is a jealous mistress, and requires a long and constant courtship. It is not to be won by trifling favors, but by lavish homage.
Joseph Story
#27. Careful," he said. "If you keep blushing like that I may do more than just draw you.
Nenia Campbell
#28. It's true that romance novels do detail the courtship phase of a relationship. We usually write 'And they lived happily ever after' before our heroine starts snoring or our hero starts tossing his socks over the hamper.
Teresa Medeiros
#29. 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, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.
Samuel Richardson
#30. Fears and expectations that date back to earlier experiences of dependency, but that didn't arise during courtship or dating, are activated as commitment to the relationship increases. As a result, partners start to anticipate the worst, not the best from their relationship.
Stan Tatkin
#32. We get an apartment together, and after a whirlwind courtship you marry my sister and honeymoon in Vegas.
Eoin Colfer
#33. Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals.
Peter R. Grant
#34. When you decide to meet - in person - someone that you met online, would you then be taking your relationship to the 'previous' level?
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#35. an indefinite courtship soon injures a woman's position and credit, sooner than you think.' 'Baptista,
Thomas Hardy
#36. As the day you get married is as important as the years of courtship, so the journey to success is as important as success itself.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#37. Allow your relationship to progress at its own pace. Enjoy each moment of each date, the courtship, the friendship, and the natural progression to commitment. If it is meant to be, it will happen.
Pamela Cummins
#38. I've always said men should study romance novels to find out how women think and what they want, both during the courtship phase and in a lifelong partner.
Teresa Medeiros
#39. Darwin speculated that "music tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are excited not only by love, but by strong passions of jealousy, rivalry, and triumph" and that speech arose, secondarily, from this primal music.
Oliver Sacks
#40. Vin looked down at the handkerchief. Whena nobleman wants to court a lady seriously, he gives her a handkerchief.
Brandon Sanderson
#41. 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
#42. I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy.
"Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is
strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I
am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.
Jane Austen
#43. Dating with no regrets means keeping your focus on Jesus, so that no matter what happens in your relationships with others, your relationship with God remains intact.
Debra Fileta
#45. The only thing a whirlwind courtship does is blow dust in everyone's eyes.
Jilly Cooper
#46. This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.
Emily Murphy
#47. Courtship? Had I said courtship? What did I think, that this was Jane freakin' Eyre?
Terri Farley
#48. The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.
Marcel Achard
#49. Always carry it in thy mind, and act upon it, as a sure maxim: "That women are timid:" And 'tis well they are
else there would beno dealing with them.
Laurence Sterne
#50. A woman never thoroughly cares for her
lover until he has ceased to care for her; and it is not until you have
snapped your fingers in Fortune's face and turned on your heel that she
begins to smile upon you.
Jerome K. Jerome
#51. 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
#52. My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory.
Elizabeth Warren
#53. Sexual behavior in our species goes through three characteristic phases: pair formation, precopulatory activity, and copulation, usually but not always in that order. The pair-formation stage, usually referred to as courtship, is remarkably prolonged by animal standards.
Desmond Morris
#54. The natural world is full of females falling hard for stupid male display behavior, including bright feathers, big antlers, and bombastic courtship rituals.
Richard Conniff
#55. Several years ago, I was creating a Christmas present for the family, a self-published cookbook featuring recipes my grandmother had collected and created over decades. While interviewing her for the biographical section, she began to talk about her courtship with my late grandfather.
Kristina McMorris
#56. You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.
Benjamin Disraeli
#57. At 14 I discovered girls. At that time dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship.
Gene Kelly
#59. Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult.
Michael Leunig
#60. Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him, and if you don't you must still please-in order to avoid having one.
Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
#61. Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try,
And ring suspected vessels ere they buy;
But wives, a random choice, untried they take;
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake;
Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away,
And all the woman glares in open day.
Alexander Pope
#62. A lot of people head into courtship looking for fireworks. Don't pass up a chance by dumping someone after a first date because you don't feel the fireworks. The fireworks can happen at any time and be maintained.
Helen Fisher
#63. There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.
Dodie Smith
#64. Take care lest perchance you fall into the mistake of thinking to gain more by being merciful than by being just; for to pardon him too easily that has transgressed is to wrong him that transgresses not.
Baldassare Castiglione
#65. The Gerat Bald Swamp Hedgehog of Billericay displays, in courtship, his single prickle and does impressions of Holiday Inn desk clerks. Since this means him standing motionless for enormous periods of time he is often eaten in full display by The Great Bald Swamp Hedgehog Eater.
Mike Harding
#66. During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking.
Joshua Harris
#67. For a species low in male parental investment, the basic dynamic of courtship, as we've seen, is pretty simple: the male really wants sex; the female isn't so sure.7
Robert Wright
#68. Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which grow up ten years later into domestic hatred.
C.S. Lewis
#69. 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
#71. I've worn so many things, I've tried on so many things ... I've spent probably thousand of hours in fittings. I can know so quickly how something's going to feel on me, look on me. It's a pretty fast courtship. I say yes or no pretty quickly.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#72. The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.
O. Henry
#73. 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
#74. She urged him on; he remained with her, focused, his lips now on her shoulder, now on her jaw; a courtship above, a steady invasion below - she could make any noise, do anything she liked, he would never go -
Meredith Duran
#75. I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.
Charles Bukowski
#76. The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.
Wilson Mizner
#77. If this was cynical, then we must allow that all courtship is cynical.
Zoe Heller
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. The traditional flowers of courtship are the traditional flowers of the grave, delivered to the victim before the kill. The cadaver is dressed up and made up and laid down and ritually violated and consecrated to an eternity of being used.
Andrea Dworkin
#81. I'm gonna love you like nobody's loved you come rain or come shine.
Johnny Mercer
#82. Given that Liam had missed a courtship lasting several years and realized he was in a relationship only when he had woken up chained to a wall, he could very well believe someone else might learn the Rownt culture more quickly than he had.
Lyn Gala
#83. There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
Erica Jong
#84. Fire should never be tempered in a female because that's what fuels her passion, causing it to ignite." He lifted my chin with his hand and stroked his thumb gently across my lips. "All a male can hope for is to be consumed by it until there is nothing left of him.
Dannika Dark
#85. The amusements of broadcast consist mainly of songs, stories, and games, just as in tribal life. The songs and stories are mostly about courtship, the games mostly played by men, just as in tribal life.
Stewart Brand
#86. Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals.
Peter R. Grant
#87. There are some pools that woo us, as if in courtship. Others challenge, as if yearning a feisty relationship.
Fennel Hudson
#88. The Ruffed Pandanga of Borneo and Rotherham spreads out his feathers in his courtship dance and imitates Winston Churchill and Tommy Cooper on one leg. The padanga is dying out because the female padanga doesn't take it too seriously.
Mike Harding
#89. I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.
Patrick Rothfuss
#90. I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full tide. But loathe the expense, the vanity and pride. No place each way is happy.
William Habington
#91. Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.
Drew Barrymore
#92. I think most of us who have been married for any substantial length of time realize that the romantic roller coaster of courtship eventually evens out to the terrain of a Midwest interstate - long, flat stretches with an occasional overpass.
Gary Thomas
#94. Are they trained to treat everyone as a servant?'
'Probably. That doesn't make you into one,
Sherwood Smith
#96. She had surrendered her virtue at six-and-ten, to a beautiful blond-haired sailor on a trading galley up from Lys. He only knew six words of the Common Tongue, but "fuck" was one of them - the very word she'd hoped to hear.
George R R Martin
#97. Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.
Sarah Fielding
#98. Each time a girl approached the table, Mortimer would smile. Like this: And each time the girl would shriek and run away.
Kelly DiPucchio
#99. A virgin is a good bride. A righteous virgin is the best bride.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#100. I challenge a man to a duel before allowing him near me, and then I take an arrow, dip it in poison, and drive it straight through his heart ... But that's on a good day ... when I purr and feel delightfully amorous. No need to mention what I'd do on a bad one.
Donna Lynn Hope
