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  • We get an apartment together, and after a whirlwind courtship you marry my sister and honeymoon in Vegas.

  • Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo.

    Peter Farb (1968). “Man's rise to civilization as shown by the Indians of North America from primeval times to the coming of the industrial state”, Secker & Warburg
  • Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

    Joseph Addison (1729). “The spectator”, p.43
  • I asked of Echo 't other day (Whose words are few and often funny), What to a novice she could say Of courtship, love, and matrimony. Quoth Echo, plainly, "Matter-o'-money.

    Echoes   Novices   Matter  
    John Godfrey Saxe (1866). “The Masquerade: And Other Poems”, p.195
  • There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.

    Writing   Goes On   World  
    Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi
  • No serious courtship or engagement or marriage is worth the name if we do not fully invest all that we have in it and in so doing trust ourselves totally to the one we love. You cannot succeed in love if you keep one foot out on the bank for safety's sake. The very nature of the endeavor requires that you hold on to each other as tightly as you can and jump in the pool together.

    Love You   Names   Feet  
  • The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved kind with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing emotions of the soul, rise in the pursuit.

    Party   Passion   Men  
    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.296
  • Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

    Marriage   Witty   Play  
    'The Old Bachelor' (1693) act 5, sc. 10
  • every Jack He must study the knack If he wants to make sure of his Jill!

    Knack   Want   Study  
    Arthur Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert (2008). “The Savoy Operas: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.863, Penguin UK
  • The only thing a whirlwind courtship does is blow dust in everyone's eyes.

    Eye   Blow   Dust  
  • Over the years of courtship and being together, we realized that there was no value left for anything. People just want to know what we're eating, which designer I'm wearing, who we've invited... Saif and I decided that we wanted to keep the purest part of our relationship sacred. We followed protocol by going out on to the terrace and waving at the media after officially registering the marriage, but they didn't need to know more than that.

    Media   Years   People  
  • There is no such thing as biblical dating. If you're dating, I don't care who you're dating, you're out of God's will. If you're a young man and you're dating, you're out of God's will. Period. You can come talk to me about it later, you can be mad if you want. But that's just the truth. There's no such thing as recreational dating. There is biblical courtship, there is no recreational dating.

    Biblical   Men   Mad  
  • There is too little courtship in the world.

    Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”
  • They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

    Funny   Marriage   Dream  
    Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.284
  • O how terrible it must be for a young man-- seated before a family and the family thinking We never saw him before! He wants our Mary Lou! After tea and homemade cookies they ask What do you do for a living

    Thinking   Men   Tea  
    Gregory Corso (1960). “The Happy Birthday of Death”, p.29, New Directions Publishing
  • More and more, leadership, whether it's profit or nonprofit, is about recruiting and keeping talented people. That's the biggest challenge. Yes, you've got to create systems that will enable people easily to innovate continuously; you've got to be a system-builder. But finding and keeping geeks and shrinks is the biggest challenge. That means leaders have got to be salespeople, they've got to be recruiters, and they've got to be actively able to understand and keep the talent they have. Leadership is courtship. That's what it's becoming.

    Mean   People   Leader  
    Source: www.strategy-business.com
  • On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the only prominent specific distinction, and it features conspicuously both in attacking behaviour, when the birds face each other and grip beaks, and also in courtship, when food is passed from the beak of the male to the beak of the female. Hence though the beak differences are primarily correlated with differences in food, secondarily they serve as specific recognition marks, and the birds have evolved behaviour patterns to this end.

    David Lack (1947). “Darwin's Finches”, p.54, CUP Archive
  • The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.

    Past   Men   Gloves  
    O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.1959, Delphi Classics
  • The modesty of women, which, in its most primitive form among animals, is based on sexual periodicity, is, with that periodicity, an essential condition of courtship.

    Sex   Animal   Essentials  
    Havelock Ellis (2013). “Psychology of Sex: The Biology of Sex—The Sexual Impulse in Youth—Sexual Deviation—The Erotic Symbolisms—Homosexuality—Marriage—The Art of Love”, p.30, Butterworth-Heinemann
  • The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father; but coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.

    Daughter   Father   Fall  
    Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.784, Delphi Classics
  • I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight-that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

    Taken   Sight   Doors  
    George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.136, Penguin
  • There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

    Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade
  • So much of courtship is the unspoken.

    Megan McCafferty (2006). “Charmed Thirds: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.167, Broadway Books
  • 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, Jane Collier (1754). “The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable”, p.45
  • Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.

    Lunch   Owing   Modern  
    John Galsworthy (2016). “Swan Song: England Literature”, p.51, 谷月社
  • I don’t believe in courtship.It’s a waste of time. If I love the person, I’ll tell her right away. But for you, I’ll make an exception. Just love me now, and I’ll court you forever.

    Believe   Forever   Waste  
  • 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.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.317, Penguin
  • A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.

  • That the question of likability even exists in literary conversations is odd. It implies that we are engaging in a courtship. When characters are unlikable, they don’t meet our mutable, varying standards. Certainly we can find kinship in fiction, but literary merit shouldn’t be dictated by whether we want to be friends or lovers with those about whom we read.

  • Every species has a dinner date as part of courting ritual. A woman who won't let you pay for dinner is rejecting your courtship. She may think she's playing fair, or that she's being a feminist, but a very deep level, she knows that she's crossing you off her list of possibilities.

    Jennifer Crusie (2006). “Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me”, p.328, Macmillan
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