#courtship

Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

#constitute #courtship #features #major #plumage

You might be surrounded by clouds, but you'll be like sunshine to me. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#humor #love #rose-hathaway #humor

Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#hurry #impatience #love #time #love

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

— William Shakespeare

#courtship #empowerment #freedom #happiness #husbands

It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship. ↗

— Michael Reagan

#courtship #hard #learn #parents #your

We have better relationships with those who truly seek us rather than those sitting on the couch watching us move mountains trying to prove ourselves. ↗

— Criss Jami

#courtship #dating #friend #friends #friendship

What I personally knew about courting women could comfortably fit into a thimble without taking it off your finger first. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#dating #dating-advice #women #dating

With his eyes and those hands there won't be a woman safe in all the world when he starts hunting after the ladies.' 'Courting, dear,' my father corrected gently. 'Semantics,' she shrugged. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#courtship #humor #humour #kingkiller-chronicle #kvothe

I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#deception #virtue #men

What is wrong with the [tale of] Two Swords?" he asked, even more surprised. "Don't you care for it?" "There is too bloody much romance in it," she said curtly. Ah, well, here was the crux of it, apparently. "Don't you like romance?" he ventured. She looked as though she were trying to decide if she should weep or, as he had earlier predicted, stick him with whatever blade she could lay her, hand on. "I don't know," she said briskly. "I see," he said, though he didn't. He wished, absently, that he'd had at least one sister. He was very well versed in what constituted courtly behavior and appropriate formal wooing practices, thanks to his father's insistence on many such lectures delivered by a dour man whose only acquaintance with women had likely come from reading about them in a book, but he had absolutely no idea how to proceed with a woman whose first instinct when faced with something that made her uncomfortable was to draw her sword. ... "I'll stop provoking you, but I will have the answer to a question. Why do you think most men woo?" "Because they have no sword skill and need something with which to occupy their time? ↗

— Lynn Kurland

#female-fighter #wooing #men