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Wooing Quotes
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Woo the fair one when around Early birds are singing; When o'er all the fragrant ground Early herbs are springing: When the brookside, bank, and grove All with blossom laden, Shine with beauty, breathe of love, Woo the timid maiden. (Quote by - William Cullen Bryant)
She's beautiful and therefore to be woo'd: She is a woman, therefore to be won. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
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. (Quote by - Proverbs)
'Twas he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung. (Quote by - Bidpai)
There is a tide in the affairs of women Which, taken at the flood, leads God knows where. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
He that will win his dame must do As love does when he draws his bow; With one hand thrust the lady from, And with the other pull her home. (Quote by - Samuel Butler 1)
Better be courted and jilted Than never be courted at all. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)
Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long a-doing, So much time is saved in the billing and cooing. (Quote by - R. H. Barham)
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. (Quote by - George Moore)
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. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)
Not much he kens, I ween, of woman's breast, Who thinks that wanton thing is won by sighs. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise. (Quote by - Bible)
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. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)