Romantic Quotes - Love Quotes
Wooing
So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her Love, And thus the Soldier arm'd with Resolution Told his soft Tale, and was a thriving Wooer.
- By Colley Cibber , on Wooing
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.
- By Thomas Campbell , on Wooing
Better be courted and jilted Than never be courted at all.
- By Thomas Campbell , on Wooing
'Tis enough-- Who listens once will listen twice; Her heart be sure is not of ice, And one refusal no rebuff.
- By Lord Byron , on Wooing
Some are soon bagg'd but some reject three dozen. 'Tis fine to see them scattering refusals And wild dismay, o'er every angry cousin who begin accusals, Such as--"Unless Miss meant to have chosen Poor Frederick, why did she accord perusals To his billets? Why waltz with him? Why, I pray, Look yes least night, and yet say No to-day?"
- By Lord Byron , on Wooing
There is a tide in the affairs of women Which, taken at the flood, leads--God knows where.
- By Lord Byron , on Wooing
And whispering, "I will ne'er consent," consented.
- By Lord Byron , on Wooing
'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.
- By Lord Byron , on Wooing
Not much he kens, I ween, of woman's breast, Who thinks that wanton thing is won by sighs.
- By Lord Byron , on Wooing
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.
- By Lord Byron , on Wooing
