Quotessence
Home / Topics / Courtship Quotes

Courtship Quotes

Browse 203 quotes about Courtship.

Related topics

MenMarriageIfsKnowsLongPersonsHeartLoveMomentsThinkingWantWooingWorldYears

Courtship Quotes

“I had one last try. "Does it bother you that I'm not a virgin?" He hesitated a moment before answering. "Well, no," he said slowly, "so long as it doesna bother you that I am." He grinned at my drop-jawed expression, and backed toward the door. "Reckon one of us should know what they're doing," he said. The door closed softly behind him; clearly the courtship was over.”

KnowsShouldTryingWellsLongDoeSaidMomentsLastsBehindsDoorsExpressionBotherVirginsCourtshipOutlanderJamie FraserClaire Fraser
Book:The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn
Create image

“I was gushing and I knew it. I surprised myself with my eagerness to please, felt myself saying too much, explaining too much, overinvolved and overexcited in the way you are when you're a kid and you think you've found a soul mate in the new boy down the street and you feel yourself drawn by the force of the courtship and so act as you don't normally do and a lot more openly than you may even want to.”

ThinkingWayWantFeelsMaySoulKidsFoundForceFeltBoysToo MuchStreetsPleaseMatesExplainingSoul MateCourtshipEagernessSaying Too Much
Book:The Human Stain: A Novel
Create image

“Unless you stop him. Perhaps next we meet." "You'll be just as annoying?" I guessed. He fixed my with those warm brown eyes. "Or perhaps you could bring me up to speed on those modern courtship rituals." I sat there stunned until he gave me a glimpse of a smile-just enough to let me know he was teasing. Then he disappeared. "Oh, very funny!" I yelled.”

KnowsEnoughEyeNextModernLet MeWarmSpeedFixedSatBrownRitualAnnoyingGlimpseTeaseCourtshipStunnedBrown Eyes
Author:Rick Riordan
Create image

“I didn't want to tell the story of what makes two people come together, although that's a theme of great power and universality. I wanted to find out what it takes for two people to stay together for fifty years -- or more. I wanted to tell not the story of courtship, but the story of marriage.”

PeopleWantYearsTwoStoriesWantedTogetherThemeFiftyGreat PowerCourtshipUniversality
Book:The Outlandish Companion (Revised and Updated): Companion to Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, and Drums of Autumn
Create image

“My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But it was not an infatuation, and here’s how I can tell: because I did not demand that he become my Great Emancipator or my Source of All Life, nor did I immediately vanish into that man’s chest cavity like a twisted, unrecognizable, parasitical homonculus. During our long period of courtship, I remained intact within my own personality, and I allowed myself to meet (him) for who he was.”

MenLongI CanRomanceMy OwnWonderfulSourcePersonalityPeriodsDemandElementsAffairCrushCherishChestsInfatuationTwistedLove AffairCourtshipMy Own Personality
Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
Create image

“You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here's a hint - ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you, it wasn't just the women. It's the great male fantasy - all it takes is one dance to know that she's the one. All it takes is the sound of her song from the tower, or a look at her sleeping face. And right away you know - this is the girl in your head, sleeping or dancing or singing in front of you. Yes, girls want their princes, but boys want their princesses just as much. And they don't want a very long courtships. They want to know immediately.”

ThinkingKnowsWantLooksLongFacesSongGirlAsksSoundSleepBoysFantasyFrontsSingingDancingMalesTalesFairyPrincessFairy TaleTowersHintsCourtship
Author:David Levithan
Create image

“In a dating and courtship relationship, I would not have you spend five minutes with someone who belittles you, one who is constantly critical of you, one who is cruel at your expense and may even call it humor. Life is tough enough without the person who is supposed to love you leading the assault on your self-esteem, your sense of dignity, your confidence, and your joy. In this person's care, you deserve to feel physically safe and emotionally secure.”

FeelsMayPersonsSelfEnoughCareLife IsJoyFiveMinutesLove YouSelf EsteemSafeDeserveToughDignityDatingCriticalEsteemSecureExpensesAssaultFive MinutesCourtshipBelittleLife Is ToughLife Humor
Author:Jeffrey R. Holland
Create image

“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.”

ThinkingKnowsMayLevelsPayPossibilityFairsSpeciesFeministDinnerListsRitualCrossingsVery DeepRejectingCourtshipDinner Dates
Book:Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me
Create image

“I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.”

LoveWarHardHomeAgeMotherSongLandPrideJudgmentDeterminationAnd LoveHorseTragedyMurderSalvationPrisonSeparationHard TimesRebellionAdulteryPietyWhiskeyRailroadsDamnationCourtshipRamblingJudgment DayLarceny
Author:Johnny Cash
Create image

“The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father; but coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.”

HumansSoulFallFatherBirthDaughterNobleMortalsGod LoveSpheresCourtshipNature Love
Book:Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)
Create image

“On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the only prominent specific distinction, and it features conspicuously both in attacking behaviour, when the birds face each other and grip beaks, and also in courtship, when food is passed from the beak of the male to the beak of the female. Hence though the beak differences are primarily correlated with differences in food, secondarily they serve as specific recognition marks, and the birds have evolved behaviour patterns to this end.”

ShouldKindEndsCharacterFacesScienceDifferencesEvolutionBirdFemaleMarkMalesPatternsRecognitionFeaturesDistinctionConsiderationSurprisingBehaviourAttackingProminentCourtshipBeaksFinches
Book:Darwin's Finches
Create image

“There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.”

TryingMarriagePicksBlameCleanDivorceLawyerRhythmBroken HeartHopelessInsightfulWornExhaustedCorpsesCourtshipWorn OutMarriage DivorceMarriage And Divorce
Book:how to save your own life
Create image

“Over the years of courtship and being together, we realized that there was no value left for anything. People just want to know what we're eating, which designer I'm wearing, who we've invited... Saif and I decided that we wanted to keep the purest part of our relationship sacred. We followed protocol by going out on to the terrace and waving at the media after officially registering the marriage, but they didn't need to know more than that.”

PeopleKnowsWantNeedsYearsWantedTogetherValuesLeftMediaEatingDecidedSacredDesignerOur RelationshipGoing OutInvitedCourtshipProtocolBeing TogetherTerrace
Author:Kareena Kapoor
Create image

“I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight-that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.”

WayFactsVirtueTakenImpossibleDoorsSeaExpectationsSightDatingStoresAccomplishmentGuaranteesBroadsLeisureSmallestExploringDelightfulVoyagesSampleCourtship
Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Create image

“Mating Strategy is influenced by the cardinal fact that women have more at stake in sexual activity than men, because of the limited age span in which they can reproduce and the heavy investment required of them with each child conceived. In courtship women consistently emphasize commitment of resources and material security.”

MenChildrenFactsAgeSecurityMaterialsEvolutionActivityCommitmentResourcesStrategyInvestmentHeavyStakesConsistentlyCardinalsCourtshipMating
Author:E. O. Wilson
Create image

“If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed, the least social of mammals mate with scarcely more ceremony. The species that have evolved long-term bonds are also, by and large, the ones that rely on elaborate courtship rituals. . . . Love and sex do indeed go together.”

IfsLoveLongTogetherSocialSexTermFunctionSpeciesLong TermRelyRitualSecondsMatesSoleCeremonyCourtshipMammals
Author:E. O. Wilson
Create image

“There is no such thing as biblical dating. If you're dating, I don't care who you're dating, you're out of God's will. If you're a young man and you're dating, you're out of God's will. Period. You can come talk to me about it later, you can be mad if you want. But that's just the truth. There's no such thing as recreational dating. There is biblical courtship, there is no recreational dating.”

IfsMenWantCareYoungPeriodsDatingMadDon't CareGods WillI Don't CareYoung ManBiblicalTalk To MeCourtship
Author:Paul Washer
Create image

“As the tide of feminism that crested two decades ago recedes and the old advance-and-retreat games of courtship return, "Pride & Prejudice" speaks wistfully to the moment. Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy are tantalizing early prototypes for a Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy ideal of lovers as brainy, passionate sparring partners. That the world teems with fantasies of Mr. Darcy and his ilk there is no doubt. How many of his type are to be found outside the pages of a novel, however, is another matter.”

WorldTwoMatterMomentsRomanceFoundGamesSpeakFantasyNovelDoubtFeminismPrideTypeReturnLoversPagesIdealsDatingPrejudicePassionateDecadesPartnersNo DoubtTidesRetreatCourtshipPrototypeHepburnDarcyTracySparringTantalizingSparring Partner
Author:Stephen Holden
Create image

“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.”

LongLawLordConstantFavorsJealousRivalsMistressHomageCourtshipTriflingHale
Book:The Miscellaneous Writings: Literary, Critical, Juridical, and Political of Joseph Story, Now First Collected
Create image

“That the question of likability even exists in literary conversations is odd. It implies that we are engaging in a courtship. When characters are unlikable, they don’t meet our mutable, varying standards. Certainly we can find kinship in fiction, but literary merit shouldn’t be dictated by whether we want to be friends or lovers with those about whom we read.”

WantCharacterFictionLoversConversationStandardsOddMeritEngagingCourtshipKinshipLiterary Merit
Author:Roxane Gay
Create image

“No serious courtship or engagement or marriage is worth the name if we do not fully invest all that we have in it and in so doing trust ourselves totally to the one we love. You cannot succeed in love if you keep one foot out on the bank for safety's sake. The very nature of the endeavor requires that you hold on to each other as tightly as you can and jump in the pool together.”

IfsTogetherNamesFeetLove YouSeriousSucceedSafetySakeEndeavorEngagementPoolCourtship
Author:Jeffrey R. Holland
Create image

“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.”

OrderThreeAnimalStageActivityBehaviorStandardsSpeciesCharacteristicsPairsPhasesFormationCourtship
Book:The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal
Create image