Courtship Quotes

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

Dream, Wake, Wedlock

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

Love, Long, Marriages

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
William Congreve

Marriage, Play, Witty

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

Quiet, Nor, Number

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

Deserve, Watching, Highest

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

Woman, Tongue, Ears

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

Parents, Hard, Learn

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

Nothing, Almost, Behavior

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

Job, Old, Since

I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'
Bharati Mukherjee

Time, Wedding, Father

There is too little courtship in the world.
Vernon Lee

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

Major, Component, Constitute

Males transmit signals in courtship through behavioral displays.
Peter R. Grant

Through, Males, Behavioral

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

Time, Girl, Put

Throughout our courtship, Kenny told me that he had proof that Saddam Hussein was a threat because he possessed weapons of mass destruction. I told him, 'You had me at weapons.'
Renee Zellweger

Him, Weapons, Mass

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

Politics, Made, Strange

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