Top 42 Wooed Quotes
#1. Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed
Confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued,
And cries reproachful: Was it then my praise,
And not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth;
I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.
James Russell Lowell
#2. We are wooed, then mocked, plagued like Amfortas, King of the Grail Knights, by a wound refusing heal.
Patti Smith
#3. I want to be wooed. I want to be courted. I want to be seduced. I want the magical tension that is there at the start of a relationship.
Andrew Critchley
#4. You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth.
Winston S. Churchill
#5. Finding a seat in the back, she worshipped with the early service congregation, eyes closed, arms held wide, her heart offering it all to the One who wooed her with love and grace. Unconditional and uncompromising. Perfectly done on His part, not so much hers. But
Rachel Hauck
#6. It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
George Bernard Shaw
#7. His fiddle weeps, she thought, yet it wooed her with its sweetness, warm as a lover's touch.
Laura Frantz
#8. Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.
Anthony Storr
#9. Neither does she have a name
none that I could find even in my most persistent researches: Julian's gentle lady, I mean; she whom I sought and chased and wooed (as it were) down a warren of historical tunnels.
Walter Wangerin Jr.
#10. He never treated her as a wife. He wooed her over and over again, with presents, flowers, new pleasures.
Anais Nin
#11. A humble, bootstrappy patriot, Knox wooed, then married Lucy Flucker, the highbrow daughter of the Loyalist governor of the province of Massachusetts.
Sarah Vowell
#12. Wooed by a vivid cover, she picked one up and leafed through it. She loved thee way it smelled, the ink, the fine paper, the oversized photographs.
Elizabeth Brundage
#13. She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.
Anna Godbersen
#14. That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.
Francis Bacon
#15. O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.
Robert Browning
#16. I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.
Washington Irving
#17. 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
#18. He gave her body a raking gaze. "I doona give up my secrets that easily, lass. And it takes a lot more than honeyed words to persuade me. If ye must know, I prefer to be wooed first.
Victoria Roberts
#19. I want to woo you with food now that I've wooed you with words, song, and the magic of my interpretive dance.
Stacey Jay
#20. Was ever woman in this humour wooed?
Was ever woman in this humour won?
William Shakespeare
#21. Oh, I wonder if I will ever feel the burst of birth-joy, that knowing that the indescribable, joyous thing that has wooed and wond me has passed through my life and produced one atom of the great reality.
Emily Carr
#22. I think this is a very important thing to understand about Christianity. It was from its very beginnings, it seems, a religion of great quarrels and wars, and it wooed the power of temporal authorities, and made them part of itself in the hope of resolving through sheer force its many arguments.
Anne Rice
#23. When it's over, we may feel wooed, adored, appreciated, or abused, but it will have been an affair to remember.
Thomas C. Foster
#25. Games are the way we keep romance alive. They're based in human hardwiring. Playing hard-to-get or leaving a little to the imagination allows the woman to be wooed and appreciated and the man to be challenged and intrigued.
Helen Fisher
#26. For they both were solitary,
She on earth and he is heaven.
And he wooed her with caressed,
Wooed her with his smile of sunshine
-Song of Hiawatha, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Jana Oliver
#27. Philip wooed me with all the patience of someone trying to coax a half-wild animal into the house and, like many a stray, I found myself domesticated before I thought to resist.
Kelley Armstrong
#28. Sadie . . ." He swallowed. "I'm not willin' to just be your cousin anymore." His shoulders squared. "Whatever it takes to win your affection, I'll do it. I'm gonna woo you like no man's ever wooed a woman before. An' I'm gonna win your love. You wait an' see.
Kim Vogel Sawyer
#30. Typically, the young male spreads his legs to show his erection - a sexual invitation - making sure that his back is turned to the other males or that, with his underarm leaning on his knee, one of his hands loosely dangles right next to his penis so that only the wooed female can see
Frans De Waal
#31. Luck is a goddess not to be coerced and forcibly wooed by those who seek her favours. From such masterful spirits she turns away. But it happens sometimes that, if we put our hand in hers with the humble trust of a little child, she will have pity on us, and not fail us in our hour of need.
P.G. Wodehouse
#32. The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever wooed by Jesus, we are now free to forever woo our wives.
Tullian Tchividjian
#33. After my 1985 appearance on 'The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,' I was wooed by producers in Hollywood, who told me they wanted to turn my act into a sitcom.
Roseanne Barr
#34. Success is like a lovely woman, wooed by many men, but folded in the arms of him alone who, free from over-zeal, firmly persists and calmly perseveres.
J. K. Bharavi
#35. Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
Benjamin Cardozo
#36. He was smiling - a kind of honest, humbled, sweet smile. "Maybe I'm getting better at this?" he asked. "Better at wooing you in the manner in which you should be wooed?
Chloe Neill
#37. You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments.
Bernie Worrell
#38. Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.
Charles V
#39. I am waltzing with death, flirting with him, but he stands there smiling and saying nothing because he does not need to woo or be wooed: he knows he gets us all in the end.
Nenia Campbell
#40. Are you sure you've never wooed a girl before? You're very good at it." "I'm not trying to woo you. I'm trying to ruin you for all others.
Kelley R. Martin
#41. She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.
William Shakespeare
#42. I grow very impatient with prose writers who don't pay attention to the cadence of the sentence. If you start as a poet, you're wooed by the music of language; you want to put that into your practice.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
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