Wooing Quotes - Page 2

• The light that lies In woman's eyes.

  Charles Lamb

  Lying, Eye, Light

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.

  Bayard Taylor

  Charm, Verses

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

  Francis Bacon

  Love, Inquiry, Sovereign

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Truth'

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• Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing, Read you not the wrong you're doing In my cheek's pale hue? All my life with sorrow strewing; Wed or cease to woo.

  Thomas Campbell

  Heart, Sorrow, Hue

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.167

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• Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.

  Lord Byron

  Wise, Art, Moving

  Lord Byron (1854). “Childe Harold's pilgrimage”, p.84

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• Sublime tobacco! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opium and his brides; Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand, Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand: Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe, When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; Like other charmers wooing the caress, More dazzlingly when daring in full dress; Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties Give me a cigar!

  Lord Byron

  Cheer, Giving, Sublime

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1029, Delphi Classics

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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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