During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking.

- Joshua Harris, Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship

If a man does not treat you like a princess during courtship, he will not treat you like a queen during marriage.

- Matshona Dhliwayo

The first six months are what I call the La La Land phase. This is what a lot of romantic novels, songs, and movies are based upon. Enjoy the courtship, nights out, and fun. You will eventually come back to reality.

- Pamela Cummins, Insights for Singles: Steps to Find Everlasting Love

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

- Alexander Pope

The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same.

- George Eliot, Middlemarch

Allow your relationship to progress at its own pace. Enjoy each moment of each date, the courtship, the friendship, and the natural progression to commitment. If it is meant to be, it will happen.

- Pamela Cummins

Dr. Morris soon recognized that the difference between successful and unsuccessful marriages can often be traced to how well couples are able to "bond" during the courtship period. By bonding he referred to the process by which a man and woman become cemented together emotionally. It describes the chemistry that permits two previous strangers to become intensely valuable to one another. It helps them weather the storms of life and remain committed in sickness and health, for richer or poorer, for better or worse, forsaking all others until they are parted in death. It is a phenomenal experience that almost defies description.

- James C. Dobson

Courtship is an activity whereby one losses oneself … whilst trying to win someone’s love.

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.

- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Courtship is driven by hormones

- marriage is sustained by humility and self-sacrifice.