Zitat des Tages über Umwerbung / Courtship:
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
A romance is a courtship story. In the 19th century, the definition of the romance genre was an escape from daily life that included adventure and love and battle. But in the 20th century, that term changed, and now it's deemed only a love story, specifically a courtship story.
In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow.
Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.
Males transmit signals in courtship through behavioral displays.
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.
The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.
It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.
I became a human jukebox, learning all these songs I'd always known, discovering the basics of what I do. The cathartic part was in the essential act of singing. When is it that the voice becomes an elixir? It's during flirting, courtship, sex. Music's all that.
There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.
Throughout our courtship, Kenny told me that he had proof that Saddam Hussein was a threat because he possessed weapons of mass destruction. I told him, 'You had me at weapons.'
The loss of courtship in modern days - like, people don't court anybody anymore. There's no beauty about it.
Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals.
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
While I am aware of no counsel on whether kissing should be reserved only for post-mission dating or courtship, I am aware of plenty of counsel concerning honesty in our actions and treating others with respect and kindness. Casual attitudes about expressions of affection such as kissing can cause much grief and heartache.
Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals.
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
There is too little courtship in the world.
I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'
'Letters From Home' is a story inspired by my grandparents' epistolary courtship.