Wooing Quotes

Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long a-doing So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.

Why don't you speak for yourself John?

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Perhaps if you address the lady Most politely most politely Flatter and impress the lady Most politely most politely Humbly beg and humbly sue She may deign to look on you.

The time I've lost in wooing In watching and pursuing The light that lies In woman's eyes Has been my heart's undoing.

They dream in courtship but in wedlock wake.

Sigh no more ladies sigh no more Men were deceivers ever One foot in sea and one on shore To one thing constant never.

William Shakespeare

A fool there was and he made his prayer (Even as you and I!) To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair (We called her the woman who did not care) But the fool he called her his lady fair - (Even as you or I!)

Rudyard Kipling

Men are April when they woo December when they wed.

William Shakespeare

The way of an eagle in the air the way of a serpent upon a rock the way of a ship in the midst of the sea and the way of a man with a maid.

Proverbs

She's beautiful and therefore to be woo'd: She is a woman therefore to be won.

William Shakespeare

O gentle Romeo If thou dost love pronounce it faithfully. Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay So thou wilt woo: but else not for the world.

William Shakespeare

Come live in my heart and pay no rent.

There is a tide in the affairs of women Which taken at the flood leads - God knows where.

Yes I answered you last night "No " this morning sir I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.

And let us mind faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair.

James Drummond Burns

Tis enough - Who listens once will listen twice Her heart be sure is not of ice And one refusal no rebuff.

Never wedding ever wooing Still a lovelorn heart pursuing Read you not the wrong you're doing In my cheek's pale hue? All my life with sorrow strewing Wed or cease to woo.

Thomas Campbell

If I am not worth the wooing I surely am not worth the winning.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Certain girls deserve lots of flowers. You are one of them.

It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she most confides in—her friends, of course, and her sister, if she has one.

There are many fish in the sea, but never let a good one swim away.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.

The game never changes, you must be in the secret before you are shown to the public.

Michael Bassey Johnson

I'll never miss a chance to remind you of what a brat you were. A gloriously beautiful and very spoiled brat. I was utterly charmed by your complete self-absorption. It was rather like courting a cat.

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

No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne.""I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you."She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsm

Charlotte Brontë

The vampire could woo any woman with his charisma and his charm, but he only wishes to romance her.. for eternity.

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

How initially 'to get her in the sack' and subsequently to avoid 'her giving you the sack' are not identical dilemmas faced by the male species, but they sure have a bizarre habit of being bedfellows

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

William Shakespeare