#courtship

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

— William Shakespeare

#love #love

...I dare say if you'd asked him plumply what he meant in regard to the young lady, he would have told you - if he knew.' 'Why, don't you think he does know, Bromfield?' 'I'm not at all sure he does. You women think that because a young man dangles after a girl, or girls, he's attached to them. It doesn't at all follow. He dangles because he must, and doesn't know what to do with his time, and because they seem to like it. I dare say that Tom has dangled a good deal in this instance because there was nobody else in town. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#love #love

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. ↗

— Dodie Smith

#marriage #love

During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking. ↗

— Joshua Harris

#love #relationship #love

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

— Laurence Sterne

#attentions #consists #courtship #nor #number

You might be surrounded by clouds, but you'll be like sunshine to me. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#humor #love #rose-hathaway #humor

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

— William Shakespeare

#hurry #impatience #love #time #love

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

— William Shakespeare

#courtship #empowerment #freedom #happiness #husbands

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

#around #could #courtship #dancing #discovered

Miranda was nineteen. Her experience with men consisted of Winston and himself. Both of whom had heretofore been brotherly figures. The poor girl must be confused as hell. Winston had suddenly decided that she was Venus, Queen Elizabeth, and the Virgin Mary all rolled into one,and Turner had all but forced himself on her. Not exactly an average day in the life of a young country miss ↗

— Julia Quinn

#humor #lady #experience