Top 36 Quotes About Suitors
#1. This was a woman who lunched in fancy restaurants, filtered suitors based on their bank balances, and who looked at women like me as snacks.
Alessandra Torre
#2. My mother spoke to me this morning, she told me that my father is beginning to think of suitors for me to marry.
Emily Whitaker
#3. I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backward, cowardly, and mentally warped that will be if it turns out to be true.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#4. Understandably she had a lot of suitors, just like any other girls in China with two arms and legs.
Vann Chow
#5. The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#6. Lycos needs to be bought because other suitors will have to pay a higher premium
Andrew Barrett
#7. ( ... )"Flapper" - the notorious character type who bobbed her hair, smoked cigarettes, drank gin, sported short skirts, and passed her evenings in steamy jazz clubs, where she danced in a shockingly immodest fashion with a revolving cast of male suitors.
Joshua Zeitz
#8. Opportunity cost is a huge filter in life. If you've got two suitors who are really eager to have you and one is way the hell better than the other, you do not have to spend much time with the other. And that's the way we filter out buying opportunities.
Charlie Munger
#9. At least in cities where the Confederate Army established a base of operations, young women were overwhelmed by the number of prospective suitors. Thousands of men flocked to the Confederate capital of Richmond, prepared to work in one of the government departments or to train for duty in the Army.
Karen Abbott
#10. When I grew a little older, and had suitors, I demanded from them rings from the bottom of the sea, or a sword from the depths of the desert, or a golden bough and a thick golden fleece, too, before I allowed even one kiss.
Catherynne M Valente
#11. Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.
Elisabeth Elliot
#12. The suitors: a hundred of the greediest, evilest cut-throats who'd ever lived.
Rick Riordan
#13. I suppose I do have a suitor, but I'm not really used to him yet. He's terribly charming and he plies me with delicious meals, but I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#14. know how to lead. I was a twin who was on her own. I was a daughter with missing parents. I had a half dozen suitors and wasn't sure how to be in love. The
Kiera Cass
#15. You don't need scores of suitors. You need only one ... if he's the right one.
Louisa May Alcott
#16. If you knew the trouble we've had because Howl will keep falling in love like this! We've had lawsuits, and suitors with swords, and mothers with rolling pins, and fathers and uncles with cudgels. And aunts. Aunts are terrible. They go for you with hat pins.
Diana Wynne Jones
#17. Males of all species are made for wooing females, and females typically choose among their suitors.
Abhijit Naskar
#18. Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.
Ihara Saikaku
#19. It's always gratifying to share a hobby with a friend, and pining for erstwhile suitors falls into that category. In the months to come, Libby and I would analyze our respective exes with the gusto and intellectual rigor of Jesuits.
Patricia Marx
#20. I realized that you didn't have to make self-deprecating remarks or turn yourself into the butt of some unspoken joke. I also discovered that being big didn't deter possible suitors.
Maeve Binchy
#21. I am your servant," he answers, and touches her cheek. "I am your slave. I am here to make sure every one of the suitors does not think of either of your sisters before they think of you.
Kendare Blake
#22. She has that tough little rich girl look, the look that says to suitors: My heart belongs to Daddy, the son of a bitch.
Evan Eisenberg
#23. If you ever try to change my memories again, I will slap you into next spring." I took a breath, knees shaking as I felt small beside him, my white dress brushing against his black trousers. Some women get flowers or poems from their suitors. I get insults and threats.
Dawn Cook
#24. If you were to do a line-up of past suitors, it's definitely a very eclectic group, is all I'll say.
Sophia Myles
#25. Thin people, God bless them, God curse them, don't get it: If you're not thin, you need to be careful and conscious about when and how you suitors initially see you.
Frank Bruni
#26. You couldn't pay for her hats,' her father, a ship's captain, had told her suitors by way of discouragement, and perhaps they had all been discouraged but my grandfather, an innocent from the Georgetown Divide who read books.
Joan Didion
#27. We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
Malcolm De Chazal
#28. The Suitors Ball is fast approaching and it's a nasty reminder that my suitor will be chosen shortly. I feel sorry for the poor unfortunate guy, whichever one of them it happens to be.
Siobhan Davis
#29. Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids.
Gorgias
#30. Men were often far different in their roles as fathers than they were as suitors, the memories of which kept them, out of necessity, both vigilant and violent, and even in tender moments, to their daughters.
James Anderson
#31. And so I'll wish you safe wonderings, an utter absence of distasteful suitors, and many more days of sunshine for your hatless head.
Kiersten White
#32. But her life on this earth had taught her this: that love, in the end, was all that mattered. Friends, families, suitors, husbands: Goodness abounded in all of them.
Luanne Rice
#34. (My dove my little one
tonight there will be wine and drunken suitors
from the logging camps to pin you down
in the outlying lands of sleep
where all roads lead back to the home-village
and water may be walked on)
Al Purdy
#36. Love in modern times has been the tailor's best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth century spends more than his spare cash on personal adornment. A faultless fit, a glistening hat, tight gloves, and tighter boots proclaim the imminent peril of his position.
George Augustus Henry Sala
