Nathaniel Parker Willis
Writer
"I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love."
Courtship quotes
Courtship
16 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably."
Vernon Lee
Writer, Critic
"There is too little courtship in the world."
Michael Reagan
Political Commentator, Author
"It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts To courtship and such fair ostents of love As shall conveniently become you there."
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"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."
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