Follow a shadow, it still flies you.
Seem to fly it, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, she denies you;
Let her alone, she will court you.
Say are not women truly then,
Styled but the shadows of us men? [ Ben Jonson ]
With women worth the being won.
The softest lover ever best succeeds. [ Hill ]
And let us mind, faint heart never wan
A lady fair. [ Burns ]
Deference and intimacy live far apart. [ Moliere ]
She half consents who silently denies. [ Ovid ]
The wooing was a day after the wedding. [ Proverb ]
She is a woman, therefore may be wooed;
She is a woman, therefore may be won. [ William Shakespeare ]
There is, sir, a critical minute in
Every man's wooing, when his mistress may
Be won, which if he carelessly neglect
To prosecute, he may wait long enough
Before he gain the like opportunity. [ Marmion ]
I'll woo her as the lion woos his brides. [ John Home ]
Wooing thee,
I found thee of more value
Than stamps in gold or sums in sealed bags;
And it is the very riches of thyself
That now I aim at. [ William Shakespeare ]
A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee. [ William Shakespeare ]
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. [ Pope ]
Love is a child that talks in broken language,
Yet then he speaks most plain. [ Dryden ]
Through the lone groves would pace in solemn mood.
Wooing the pensive charms of solitude. [ Pye ]
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse. [ Bayard Taylor ]
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. [ William Shakespeare ]
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 ungamed more than it is. [ William Shakespeare ]
It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity. [ Balzac ]
I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo in festival terms. [ William Shakespeare ]
You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession. [ Beaconsfield ]