#courtship

Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#hurry #impatience #love #time #love

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 Brontë

#courtship #discord #disharmony #empowerment #gender

I challenge a man to a duel before allowing him near me, and then I take an arrow, dip it in poison, and drive it straight through his heart...But that's on a good day...when I purr and feel delightfully amorous. No need to mention what I'd do on a bad one. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#hard-to-get #heartbreaker #men #men

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

— Emily Murphy

#ears #man #over #tongue #woman

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

— Tammara Webber

#love #love

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

— Marcel Achard

#courtship #made #never #only #politics

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 #deserve #flattery #highest #insolence

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

#courtship #destruction #had #him #hussein

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

#creepy #dangerous #dating #evil-men #scary

My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#love #love