Courtship Quotes

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Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of

Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none. Beatrice: A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. -Much Ado About Nothing

William Shakespeare

Love Courtship Attraction

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he

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

William Shakespeare

Freedom Happiness Love Marriage Independence Empowerment Bachelorhood Husbands Self Determination Singles Courtship Wooing

Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure

Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.

William Shakespeare

Life Humor Funny Wedding Love Marriage Matrimony Courtship Repentance Wooing

Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.

Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.

William Shakespeare

Time Love Courtship Impatience Hurry

Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.

Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.

William Shakespeare

Love Courtship Wooing Lovers Quarrels

Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'F

Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.

William Shakespeare

Happiness Marriage Independence Pleasure Dignity Choice Empowerment Husbands Matrimony Courtship Marriage Proposal

The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nat

The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same.

George Eliot

Marriage Relationships Courtship