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Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. -- William Congreve
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship. -- Joseph Addison
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. -- Laurence Sterne
There is too little courtship in the world. -- Vernon Lee
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. -- Alexander Pope
It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship. -- Michael Reagan
This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears. -- Emily Murphy
The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. -- Marcel Achard
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
Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest. -- Cullen Hightower
Courtship is driven by hormones; marriage is sustained by humility and self-sacrifice. -- Ron Brackin
Trust me--with women worth the being won, The softest lover ever best succeeds. -- Aaron Hill
Courtship is a commitment - it's a promise not to play games with another person's heart. -- Joshua Harris
It is your virtue, being men, to try; And it is ours, by virtue to deny. -- Michael Drayton
Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred. -- C. S. Lewis
Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which grow up ten years later into domestic hatred. -- C. S. Lewis
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward. -- Erica Jong
Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after. -- Hesiod
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
With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely. -- Mary McCarthy
The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courtship is exciting and romantic because it thrives on the edge of disaster. It co-exists with the threat that, at any moment, it could fall apart and be lost forever. -- Karen Scalf Linamen
Women are angels, wooing: Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing: That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this-- Men prize the thing ungained more than it is. -- William Shakespeare
Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him, and if you don't you must still please-in order to avoid having one. -- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
The Ruffed Pandanga of Borneo and Rotherham spreads out his feathers in his courtship dance and imitates Winston Churchill and Tommy Cooper on one leg. The padanga is dying out because the female padanga doesn't take it too seriously. -- Mike Harding
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. -- Khalil Gibran
Courtship is romantic. Marriage is an act of will, said Pippa, taking a sip of water. I mean, I adore Herb. But the marriage functions because we will it to. If you leave love to hold everything together, you can forget it. -- Rebecca Miller
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. -- Erica Jong
Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain! -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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. -- E. O. Wilson
O days remember'd well! remember'd all! The bitter sweet, the honey and the gall; Those garden rambles in the silent night, Those trees so shady, and that moon se bright, That thickset alley by the arbor clos'd, That woodbine seat where we at last repos'd; And then the hopes that came and then were gone, Quick as the clouds beneath the moon past on. -- George Crabbe
Males transmit signals in courtship through behavioral displays. -- Peter R. Grant
Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals. -- Peter R. Grant
'Letters From Home' is a story inspired by my grandparents' epistolary courtship. -- Kristina McMorris
In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow. -- Helen Fisher
The loss of courtship in modern days - like, people don't court anybody anymore. There's no beauty about it. -- Sofia Vassilieva
There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different. -- Isabella Rossellini
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
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
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
Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult. -- Michael Leunig
My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory. -- Elizabeth Warren
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
A lot of people head into courtship looking for fireworks. Don't pass up a chance by dumping someone after a first date because you don't feel the fireworks. The fireworks can happen at any time and be maintained. -- Helen Fisher
Several years ago, I was creating a Christmas present for the family, a self-published cookbook featuring recipes my grandmother had collected and created over decades. While interviewing her for the biographical section, she began to talk about her courtship with my late grandfather. -- Kristina McMorris
I'm wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that is their career. I very much like the traditional courtship method of making a date. That's what they do in normal places, but Hollywood's not normal. -- Seth MacFarlane
While I am aware of no counsel on whether kissing should be reserved only for post-mission dating or courtship, I am aware of plenty of counsel concerning honesty in our actions and treating others with respect and kindness. Casual attitudes about expressions of affection such as kissing can cause much grief and heartache. -- John Bytheway
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
So much of courtship is the unspoken. -- Megan McCafferty
A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship. -- Nicolas Chamfort
Letters From Home' is a story inspired by my grandparents' epistolary courtship. -- Kristina McMorris
The only thing a whirlwind courtship does is blow dust in everyone's eyes. -- Jilly Cooper
Think not because you are now wed That all your courtship's at an end. -- Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza
You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession. -- Benjamin Disraeli
During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking. -- Joshua Harris
The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship. -- Havelock Ellis
We get an apartment together, and after a whirlwind courtship you marry my sister and honeymoon in Vegas. -- Eoin Colfer
Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo. -- Peter Farb
Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards. -- Samuel Richardson
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
The natural world is full of females falling hard for stupid male display behavior, including bright feathers, big antlers, and bombastic courtship rituals. -- Richard Conniff
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
Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The modesty of women, which, in its most primitive form among animals, is based on sexual periodicity, is, with that periodicity, an essential condition of courtship. -- Havelock Ellis
I've always said men should study romance novels to find out how women think and what they want, both during the courtship phase and in a lifelong partner. -- Teresa Medeiros
I asked of Echo 't other day (Whose words are few and often funny), What to a novice she could say Of courtship, love, and matrimony. Quoth Echo, plainly, "Matter-o'-money. -- John Godfrey Saxe
I have long had a theory Bill Clinton-Hillary Clinton relationship. Not how they met, not that story, not the courtship or any of that. But how it happened that this once-in-a-lifetime woman. -- Rush Limbaugh
I have long had a theory Bill Clinton-Hillary Clinton relationship. Not how they met, not that story, not the courtship or any of that. But how it happened that this once-in-a-lifetime woman. -- Rush Limbaugh
What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage. -- Charlotte Bronte
A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside. -- Dean Koontz
How would that excellent mystery, wedded life, irradiate the world with its blessed influences, were the generous impulses and sentiments of courtship but perpetuated in all their exuberant fullness during the sequel of marriage! -- Arthur Frederick Saunders
Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof. -- Samuel Richardson
There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship. -- Tennessee Williams
The amusements of broadcast consist mainly of songs, stories, and games, just as in tribal life. The songs and stories are mostly about courtship, the games mostly played by men, just as in tribal life. -- Stewart Brand

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