Wooing Quotes - Page 2

• Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig.

  William Shakespeare

  Dance, Scotch, Dancing

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Much Ado About Nothing: Revised Edition”, p.219, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Regardless of where you are tonight, God is with you. God is wooing you. God wants you to experience Him. Whatever you are going through today, you can find His joy and peace. However distant your dreams may seem, God is working things out, and today is an important part of that process.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Dream, Joy, Important

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Feb 24, 2015

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• Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Elderly, Wish

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• And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair. Wha does the utmost that he can Will whyles do mair.

  Robert Burns

  Heart, Mind, Doe

  'To Dr Blacklock' (1800)

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• Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

  Marie Stopes

  Travel, Adventure, Winning

  1918 Married Love, ch.10.

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• One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.

  Charles Brenton Huggins

  Justice, Identity, Pits

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• Women are angels, wooing:
  Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing:
  That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this--
  Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Angel, Men

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 2, l. [310]

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• I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.

  Cesar Romero

  Men, Leading Ladies, Competing

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• Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.

  Edmund Spenser

  Good Day, Night, Long

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser (1874). “The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene: With Other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser”, p.598

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• Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!

  Coventry Patmore

  Siege, Youth, Courtesy

  Coventry Patmore (1853). “Tamerton Church-tower: And Other Poems”, p.85

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• Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Maids, December

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [153]

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• 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.

  Lord Byron

  Desire, Cost, Lessons

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.212, Delphi Classics

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• Now that I am in my forties, she [my mother] tells me I'm beautiful; now that I am in my forties, she sends me presents and we have the long, personal and even remarkably honest phone calls I always wanted so intensely I forbade myself to imagine them. How strange. Perhaps Shaw was correct and if we lived to be several hundred years old, we would finally work it all out. I am deeply grateful. With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.

  Marge Piercy

  Beautiful, Mother, Grateful

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Braided Lives: A Novel”, p.418, PM Press

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• I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms.

  William Shakespeare

  Festivals, Rhyming, Born

  1598 Benedick. Much Ado About Nothing, act 5, sc.2, l.35-9.

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• O subtle love! a thousand wiles thou hast, by humble suit, by service, or by hire, to win a maiden's hold,--a thing soon done, for nature framed all women to be won.

  Torquato Tasso

  Humble, Winning, Done

  Torquato Tasso “Jerusalem Delivered: An Heroic Poem”, Library of Alexandria

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• Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts
  To courtship and such fair ostents of love
  As shall conveniently become you there.

  William Shakespeare

  Courtship, Merry, Fairs

  William Shakespeare (1805). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.357

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• Deference and intimacy live far apart.

  Moliere

  Intimacy, Deference

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• You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Years, Hours, Possession

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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• Heaven is not here, it's There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Heart, Long, Forever

  Elisabeth Elliot (2003). “A Path Through Suffering: Discovering the Relationship Between God's Mercy and Our Pain”, p.188, Gospel Light Publications

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• It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she most confides in—her friends, of course, and her sister, if she has one.

  Anna Godbersen

  Winning, Men, Wife

  Anna Godbersen (2014). “The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor”, p.48, Harper Collins

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• The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to experience mysteries transcending daily life and from which to recapture, in a Proustian kind of remembrance, the awareness of the cosmic forces that have shaped humankind.

  Rene Dubos

  Mean, Remembrance, Earth

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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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• With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.

  Marge Piercy

  Mother

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Braided Lives: A Novel”, p.418, PM Press

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• I loved taking off. In my own house, I seemed to be often looking for a place to hide - sometimes from the children but more often from the jobs to be done and the phone ringing and the sociability of the neighborhood. I wanted to hide so that I could get busy at my real work, which was a sort of wooing of distant parts of myself.

  Alice Munro

  Jobs, Children, Real

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Sep 05, 2011

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• Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Courtship, Benedick

  William Shakespeare, Sheldon P. Zitner (1998). “Much Ado about Nothing”, p.193, Oxford University Press, USA

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