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)
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)
The landlady and Tam grew gracious Wi' favours secret, sweet and precious. (Quote by - Robert Burns)
If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Tis enough Who listens once will listen twice; Her heart be sure is not of ice, And one refusal no rebuff. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Come live in my heart and pay no rent. (Quote by - Samuel Lover)
Why don't you speak for yourself, John? (Quote by - 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. (Quote by - W. S. Gilbert)
And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair. Wha does the utmost that he can Will whyles do mair. (Quote by - Robert Burns)
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
She that with poetry is won, Is but a desk to write upon; And what men say of her they mean No more than on the thing they lean. (Quote by - Samuel Butler 1)
Why don't the men propose, mamma? Why don't the men propose? (Quote by - Thomas Haynes Bayly)
And whispering, "I will ne'er consent," consented. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Duncan Gray cam here to woo, Ha, ha, the wooing o't! On blithe Yuletide when we were fou, Ha, ha, the wooing o't! Maggie coost her head fu' high, Looked asklent and unco skeigh, Gart poor Duncan stand abeigh: Ha, ha! the wooing o't! (Quote by - Robert Burns)
'Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore; To one thing constant never. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart, And press a suit with passion, Is not a woman's part. If man come not to gather The roses where they stand, They fade among their foliage, They cannot seek his hand. (Quote by - William Cullen Bryant)
There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: 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 - Bible)
Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing. (Quote by - Richard Harris Barham)
So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her Love, And thus the Soldier arm'd with Resolution Told his soft Tale, and was a thriving Wooer. (Quote by - Colley Cibber)
Blessed is the wooing That is not long a-doing. (Quote by - Richard Eugene Burton)
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Yes, I answered you last night; "No," this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
How often in the summer-tide, His graver business set aside, His stripling Will, the thoughtful-eyed As to the pipe of Pan, Stepped blithesomely with lover's pride Across the fields to Anne. (Quote by - Richard Eugene Burton)
