Joseph Addison Quotes About Courtship

Quotes about: Courtship

• Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

  Joseph Addison

  Marriage, Long, Literature

  Joseph Addison (1729). “The spectator”, p.43

• 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.

  Joseph Addison

  Party, Passion, Men

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.296

• It is easier for an artful Man, who is not in Love, to persuade his Mistress he has a Passion for her, and to succeed in his Pursuits, than for one who loves with the greatest Violence. True Love hath ten thousand Griefs, Impatiencies and Resentments, that render a Man unamiable in the Eyes of the Person whose Affection he sollicits.

  Joseph Addison

  Love, Grief, Passion

  Joseph Addison (1712). “The Spectator”, p.53

• Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit.

  Joseph Addison

  Holiday, Men, Firsts

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.217

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