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“Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- they only. Know this at last.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne."

"I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you."

She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsmiling.

"And I ask in what sense that young man is worthy of me?”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“Winning her would be like coaxing a butterfly to land on his hand. Patience, gentleness, and perhaps a prayer or two would be required.”
― Mary Jo Putney, The Bargain

“She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.”
― Anna Godbersen, Envy

“Marriage is a full-time job; wooing is your application, courtship your interview, engagement your job offer, and honeymoon, your orientation.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The game never changes, you must be in the secret before you are shown to the public.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“What is wrong with the [tale of] Two Swords?" he asked, even more surprised. "Don't you care for it?"
"There is too bloody much romance in it," she said curtly.
Ah, well, here was the crux of it, apparently. "Don't you like romance?" he ventured.
She looked as though she were trying to decide if she should weep or, as he had earlier predicted, stick him with whatever blade she could lay her, hand on. "I don't know," she said briskly.
"I see," he said, though he didn't. He wished, absently, that he'd had at least one sister. He was very well versed in what constituted courtly behavior and appropriate formal wooing practices, thanks to his father's insistence on many such lectures delivered by a dour man whose only acquaintance with women had likely come from reading about them in a book, but he had absolutely no idea how to proceed with a woman whose first instinct when faced with something that made her uncomfortable was to draw her sword.
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"I'll stop provoking you, but I will have the answer to a question. Why do you think most men woo?"
"Because they have no sword skill and need something with which to occupy their time?”
― Lynn Kurland, The Mage's Daughter

“He will fence with his own shadow.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“The vampire could woo any woman with his charisma and his charm, but he only wishes to romance her.. for eternity.”
― Mr. Depravity

“Certain girls deserve lots of flowers. You are one of them.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“He catches my wrist and holds me there, suspended. "Wooed? I've wooed you?"
I pout at him halfheartedly. "I was trying to be nice and this is what I get--"
"No, no, I like it," he says, playing with the cuff of my sleeve. "That's going to be my job from now on. To always woo you. Expect to be wooed frequently and as often as possible. (320)”
― Tashie Bhuiyan, Counting Down with You

“I'll never miss a chance to remind you of what a brat you were. A gloriously beautiful and very spoiled brat. I was utterly charmed by your complete self-absorption. It was rather like courting a cat.”
― Robin Hobb, City of Dragons

“It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she most confides in—her friends, of course, and her sister, if she has one.”
― Anna Godbersen, The Luxe

“There are many fish in the sea, but never let a good one swim away.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Florid language frequently leads to merry lovemaking when accompanied by the correct diction, syntax, and timing.”
― Stewart Stafford

“SERVANT. Have mercy upon your servant, my queen!

QUEEN. The assembly is over and my servants are all gone. Why do you come at this late hour?

SERVANT. When you have finished with others, that is my time.
I come to ask what remains for your last servant to do.

QUEEN. What can you expect when it is too late?

SERVANT. Make me the gardener of your flower garden.

QUEEN. What folly is this?

SERVANT. I will give up my other work.
I will throw my swords and lances down in the dust. Do not send me to distant courts; do not bid me undertake new conquests.
But make me the gardener of your flower garden.

QUEEN. What will your duties be?

SERVANT. The service of your idle days.
I will keep fresh the grassy path where you walk in the morning, where your feet will be greeted with praise at every step by the flowers eager for death.
I will swing you in a swing among the branches of the saptaparna, where the early evening moon will struggle to kiss your skirt through the leaves.
I will replenish with scented oil the lamp that burns by your bedside, and decorate your footstool with sandal and saffron paste in wondrous designs.

QUEEN. What will you have for your reward?

SERVANT. To be allowed to hold your little fists like tender lotus-buds and slip flower chains over your wrists; to tinge the soles of your feet with the red juice of ashoka petals and kiss away the speck of dust that may chance to linger there.

QUEEN. Your prayers are granted, my servant, you will be the gardener of my flower garden.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, The Gardener

“Rational Self was screaming, “This is crazy! Abort before she lets you down easy!â€� But Hopeful Tama wanted to go all in; wanted to trust what he was feeling and see the wooing through. Hopeful Tama won.”
― Angela Armstrong, Missive

“She placed a hand on Big Tom's broad back. 'I only stepped out with Big Tom to make another fellow jealous, truth be told. Best spiteful thing I ever did.' Big Tom snorted, but the corners of his eyes crinkled with a smile.”
― Sarah Goodman, Eventide Sneak Peek

“The laird o Cockpen, he’s proud an he’s great,
His mind is ta’en up wi the things o the State;
He wanted a wife, his braw house to keep,
But favour wi wooin was fashious to seek.”
― Carolina Oliphant

“This is not a hunting expedition, Thomas said. "I merely mean to converse with my bride-to-be."
Paul scoffed, "Is that so? And here I thought you intended to woo the girl."
Thomas shift Risking another glance in  Charlotte's direction. "That too.”
― Maggie Dallen, The Mischievous Miss Charlotte