William Shakespeare Quotes About Courtship

• 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

• 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

• 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]

• 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

• But indeed an old religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was in his youth an inland man; one that knew courtship too well, for there he fell in love. I have heard him read many lectures against it; and I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched with so many giddy offenses as he hath generally taxed their whole sex withal.

  William Shakespeare

  Religious, Sex, Uncles

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The Plays of Shakespeare ; The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations”, p.193

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