#courtship

...I dare say if you'd asked him plumply what he meant in regard to the young lady, he would have told you - if he knew.' 'Why, don't you think he does know, Bromfield?' 'I'm not at all sure he does. You women think that because a young man dangles after a girl, or girls, he's attached to them. It doesn't at all follow. He dangles because he must, and doesn't know what to do with his time, and because they seem to like it. I dare say that Tom has dangled a good deal in this instance because there was nobody else in town. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#love #love

Each time a girl approached the table, Mortimer would smile. Like this: And each time the girl would shriek and run away. ↗

— Kelly DiPucchio

#love #smiles #zombies #love

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. ↗

— Dodie Smith

#marriage #love

Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

#almost #behavior #courtship #females #inheritance

Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

#constitute #courtship #features #major #plumage

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. ↗

— William Congreve

#dull #marriage #play #prologue #very

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

This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears. ↗

— Emily Murphy

#ears #man #over #tongue #woman

By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One of you is lying. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#cynicism #love #lying #passion #love