Suitors Quotes

• We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

  Malcolm De Chazal

  God, Waiting, Importunate

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• I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Running, Home, Thinking

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• The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.

  Margaret of Valois

  Cutting, Doe, Matter

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• People like to define you through what they've seen you do. There are aspects of my personality, I guess, that come through on-screen, but I don't sit around thinking, 'I've been a bumbling suitor all my life.'

  Ben Stiller

  Thinking, People, Personality

  "Born Funny" by Margot Dougherty, Reader's Digest, September 2007.

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• Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.

  Martial

  Winter, Doors, Giving

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• Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at last with bugles.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Winning, Brave

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• You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Needs, Little Women, Score

  "Fictional character: Younger Amy March". "Little Women", www.imdb.com. December 21, 1994.

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• I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Love You, Inspiration

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.79, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I don't need love or a man to complete me,and someday, you'll find that true for yourself. Suitors will come and go, but you will remain.

  Amanda Hocking

  Men, Needs, Someday

  Amanda Hocking (2012). “Torn”, p.169, Pan Macmillan

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• The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Time, Dinner, Hours

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• A town, before it can be plundered and, deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Taken, Law, Wish

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Love in modern times has been the tailor's best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth century spends more than his spare cash on personal adornment. A faultless fit, a glistening hat, tight gloves, and tighter boots proclaim the imminent peril of his position.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Cash, Tailors, Hats

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• Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Prayer, Cold, Aim

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• Evil Dead" needs a very specific home. Movies are mostly unrated, but on television who the heck was doing that stuff? And now the doors opened a little bit with companies like Starz. They were the only suitor that was going to let us have content that was unrestricted.

  Bruce Campbell

  Home, Doors, Evil

  "Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell on Refusing to Compromise for ‘Ash vs. Evil Dead’ and The State of Modern Horror". Interview with Ben Travers, www.indiewire.com. November 7, 2015.

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• Lycos needs to be bought because other suitors will have to pay a higher premium

  Andrew Barrett

  Needs, Pay, Premium

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• Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids.

  Gorgias

  Philosophy, Men, Bed

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• Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that their suitors have to resort to such trickery to have their way with them? And why don't women quickly succumb to them, without the need for all this skill and ingenuity in conquering them? For there is no need to go to war for a castle that is already captured.

  Christine de Pizan

  War, Believe, Skills

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• If you were to do a line-up of past suitors, it's definitely a very eclectic group, is all I'll say.

  Sophia Myles

  Past, Eclectic Style, Groups

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backward, cowardly, and mentally warped that will be if it turns out to be true.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Book, Thinking, Awful

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.101, A&C Black

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• It is good reason, that man consisting of two parts, the soul and body, the body only should not take up all, but the soul should be remembered too. Enjoying is the body's part, and well-doing is the soul's; your souls are suitors to you to remember them, that is, to remember well-doing, which is the soul's portion.

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Men, Soul And Body, Two

  Lancelot Andrewes (1843). “Works: Ninety-six sermons”, p.33

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• Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.

  Ihara Saikaku

  House, Widows, Care

  Saikaku Ihara (1959). “The Japanese Family Storehouse, Or, The Millionaires' Gospel Modernised”, Cambridge University Press

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• Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Men, Victory, Weakness

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• Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none. Beatrice: A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. -Much Ado About Nothing

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Heart, Men

  William Shakespeare (2005). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.2906, OUP Oxford

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• I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party in an endangered, rambling house, the feuding family, the rich suitor, the disruptive visitors. The novel has all of those delightful things, but it also defied every one of my expectations. I saw none of it coming. I read it in one breathless sitting, and finished wanting to give it to everyone I know.

  Maile Meloy

  Party, Thinking, Giving

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• IAGO: She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will and yet was never loud, Never lack'd gold and yet went never gay, Fled from her wish and yet said 'Now I may,' She that being anger'd, her revenge being nigh, Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly, She that in wisdom never was so frail To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail; She that could think and ne'er disclose her mind, See suitors following and not look behind, She was a wight, if ever such wight were,-- DESDEMONA: To do what? IAGO: To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Beer, Gay

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 1, l. 148

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