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Here are officers enough in Meryton to disappoint all the young ladies in the country. — Jane Austen

Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts
To courtship and such fair ostents of love
As shall conveniently become you there. — William Shakespeare

88% of men impress to undress. 88% of women undress to impress. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

an indefinite courtship soon injures a woman's position and credit, sooner than you think.' 'Baptista, — Thomas Hardy

There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different. — Isabella Rossellini

There are many blanks left in the weeks of courtship, which a loving faith fills with happy assurance. — George Eliot

Breaking and entering was an essential part of the shapeshifter courtship. — Ilona Andrews

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

A virgin is a good bride. A righteous virgin is the best bride. — Matshona Dhliwayo

If most of your courtship attempts have succeeded, you must be a very attractive and charming person who has been aiming too low. — Geoffrey Miller

We have better relationships with those who truly seek us rather than those sitting on the couch watching us move mountains trying to prove ourselves. — Criss Jami

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

The only man meant to be in your life is a man that knows your worth. — Shannon L. Alder

He's already chasing you. Now all you have to do is keep running. Just not too fast. — Tammara Webber

You're like a half-tamed creature, still shy of the bridle. 'Except you enthrall me, never shall be free.' But freedom is an illusion, anyway. — Nenia Campbell

See how the skilful lover spreads his toils. — Benjamin Stillingfleet

I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love. — Nathaniel Parker Willis

This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears. — Emily Murphy

It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship. — Michael Reagan

The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish for its continuance. — Jane Austen

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

The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship. — Havelock Ellis

So much of courtship is the unspoken. — Megan McCafferty

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which grow up ten years later into domestic hatred. — C.S. Lewis

Thou Shall Not Get Killed During courtship, partners are predisposed to anticipate their — Stan Tatkin

If you can't ignore imperfections, then your imaginary ideal soulmate will always remain pending till you grow old and die. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Love is sweet even when what you go through is bitter. — Matshona Dhliwayo

There are some pools that woo us, as if in courtship. Others challenge, as if yearning a feisty relationship. — Fennel Hudson

Courtship is a commitment -
it's a promise not to play games with another person's heart. — Joshua Harris

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare. — Charles Bukowski

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

Each time a girl approached the table, Mortimer would smile. Like this: And each time the girl would shriek and run away. — Kelly DiPucchio

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

Giving words [is] an act of lovers. — Francois Rabelais

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. — Marcel Achard

Love has little to do with romance and everything to do with honor. — Jesikah Sundin

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job. — Simone De Beauvoir

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. — Dodie Smith

It is not the size of the ring, but the size of the love. — Matshona Dhliwayo

We get an apartment together, and after a whirlwind courtship you marry my sister and honeymoon in Vegas. — Eoin Colfer

You might be surrounded by clouds, but you'll be like sunshine to me. — Richelle Mead

Life is a matter of courtship and wooing, flirting and chatting. — Carolyn See

All is fair in love and war; and if this is not love, it was the usual thing that stands as a counterpart for it. — Anthony Trollope

The loss of courtship in modern days - like, people don't court anybody anymore. There's no beauty about it. — Sofia Vassilieva

If this was cynical, then we must allow that all courtship is cynical. — Zoe Heller

It strikes me as horribly ironic that you apparently need a Fairy Godmother to properly manage your courtship of a Fairy Godmother. — Jenniffer Wardell

At one time, the first step in courtship was asking permission to write to the person who interested your affections, — Joey W. Hill

Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards. — Samuel Richardson

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

Think not because you are now wed That all your courtship's at an end. — Antonio Hurtado De Mendoza

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

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me. — William Shakespeare

Don't believe a man will give you the world if he doesn't even buy you flowers. — Matshona Dhliwayo

During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking. — Joshua Harris

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

'Letters From Home' is a story inspired by my grandparents' epistolary courtship. — Kristina McMorris

Love has no spear but conquers hearts. — Matshona Dhliwayo

My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw. — William Shakespeare

The business of courtship is like a tango: absurd and pure embellishment. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Are they trained to treat everyone as a servant?'
'Probably. That doesn't make you into one, — Sherwood Smith

If you want to know how the heart is related to the soul, love someone. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. — Wilson Mizner

Courtship is an activity whereby one losses oneself ... whilst trying to win someone's love. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably. — William Shakespeare

It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill. — Gail Carriger

Birds build nests because they cannot fly forever. — Matshona Dhliwayo

What I personally knew about courting women could comfortably fit into a thimble without taking it off your finger first. — Patrick Rothfuss

Vin looked down at the handkerchief. Whena nobleman wants to court a lady seriously, he gives her a handkerchief. — Brandon Sanderson

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. — Alexander Pope

God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse. — Margaret Of Valois

There is too little courtship in the world. — Vernon Lee

Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites. — William Shakespeare

Courtship is driven by hormones; marriage is sustained by humility and self-sacrifice. — Ron Brackin

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

In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow. — Helen Fisher

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

Did you know the bear idea of courtship is to kidnap their mates off the streets? Surely not. Surely yes. — Nalini Singh

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship. — Joseph Addison

I haven't been to a job interview since I was 16 years old. When I was approached by Givenchy it was more like a courtship. — Ozwald Boateng

All his flowers have been awaiting me on my arrival. I don't know whether to feel flattered or hunted. — Mary Ann Shaffer

Nice guys finish last but bad guys don't finish at all. — Matshona Dhliwayo

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward. — Erica Jong

When you least expect it is when the person you always dreamt of will finally show up. — Shannon L. Alder

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. — Laurence Sterne

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
(quoted in Life After Life) — William Congreve

None of us marry perfection; we marry potential. — Robert D. Hales

Women who do not play hard to get are hard to get. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Do you see a theme emerging? Women like flowers; men like food! — Joshua Harris

Courtship? Had I said courtship? What did I think, that this was Jane freakin' Eyre? — Terri Farley

They say sweethearts and squabbles are like flowers and rain. Takes both to make it springtime. — Pamela Morsi

There was no need for courtship; they simply met one day and were together after that. — Meg Rosoff

Falling in love is better than standing in hate. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I won't give my heart to another girl until God shows me it's my wife. — Eric Ludy

I'm gonna love you like nobody's loved you come rain or come shine. — Johnny Mercer

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

Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals. — Peter R. Grant

Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo. — Peter Farb

Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest. — Cullen Hightower

Careful," he said. "If you keep blushing like that I may do more than just draw you. — Nenia Campbell

You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession. — Benjamin Disraeli