Woo Quotes 

O gentle Romeo, If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully. Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won, I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo: but else, not for the world.
William Shakespeare
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Duncan Gray cam here to woo, Ha, ha, the wooing o't! On blithe Yulenight when we were fou, Ha, ha, the wooing o't! Maggie coost her head fu' high, Looked asklent and unco skeigh, Gart poor Duncan stand abeigh: Ha, ha! the wooing o't!

Robert Burns

— Robert Burns, Duncan Gray.

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He which hath business, and makes love, doth do Such wrong, as when a married man doth woo.

john donne

— c.1595-1605  'Break of Day', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

Tags: business, makes, love, wrong, when, married, man

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   The misery of us, that are born great, We are forced to woo because none dare woo us.

john webster

— 1623  The Duchess of Malfi, act1, sc.1.

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For you alone I ride the ring,For you I wear the blue;For you alone I strive to sing,O tell me how to woo!


— If Doughty Deeds ("If daughty deeds my lady pleases."), The Oxford Book of English Verse (1939)

Tags: you, alone, ride, wear, strive, singO, tell, me

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I'll woo her as the lion wooes his brides.

john home

— Act i, scene 1.

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Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant King,Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring,Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing,Cuckoo, jug, jug, pu wee, to witta woo!

thomas nashe

— lines 161-164

Tags: Spring, sweet, year's, pleasant, blooms, thing, then, maids, dance

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Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette—the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.

john tyler

— Message to the House (18 December 1816)

Tags: Popularity, thought, may, aptly, compared, more, you, apt, elude

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Dream on! Though Heaven may woo our open eyes, Through their closed lids we look on fairer skies; Truth is for other worlds, and hope for this; The cheating future lends the present's bliss; Life is a running shade, with fettered hands, That chases phantoms over shifting sands; Death a still spectre on a marble seat, With ever clutching palms and shackled feet; The airy shapes that mock life's slender chain, The flying joys he strives to clasp in vain, Death only grasps; to live is to pursue, Dream on! there 's nothing but illusion true!


— "The Old Player" (1861), in Songs in Many Keys (1862).

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If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

— Pt. III, The Lover's Errand

Tags: great, Captain, Plymouth, eager, wed, me, himself, trouble, worth

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Hast thou not learn'd me how To make perfumes? distil? preserve? yea, so That our great king himself doth woo me oft For my confections?

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act I, scene 5, line 12.

Tags: learn'd, me, perfumes, distil, preserve, our, great, king, himself

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Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What?

thomas hood

— Thomas Hood, The Painter Puzzled. In Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 576-77.

Tags: something, done, May, time, drawing, nigh, figure, public, eye

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Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.

john milton

— John Milton, Il Penseroso (1631), line 61.

Tags: Sweet, bird, shunn'st, noise, folly, Most, musical, melancholy, oft

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'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.

lord byron

— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto II (1812), Stanza 35.

Tags: old, lesson, time, approves, true, who, know, best, deplore

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We cannot fight for love, as men may do; We should be woo'd and were not made to woo.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595-96), Act II, scene 1, line 241.

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She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man: she thank'd me, And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, I should but teach him how to tell my story And that would woo her.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act I, scene 3, line 162.

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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.

thomas campbell

— Thomas Campbell, The Maid's Remonstrance.

Tags: Never, wedding, wooing, lovelorn, heart, pursuing, Read, you, wrong

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If doughty deeds my lady please, Right soon I'll mount my steed, And strong his arm and fast his seat, That bears me from the meed. Then tell me how to woo thee, love, Oh, tell me how to woo thee For thy dear sake, nae care I'll take Though ne'er another trow me.


— Robert Graham, Tell me how to woo Thee.

Tags: doughty, deeds, lady, Right, soon, mount, steed, strong, arm

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I'll woo her as the lion woos his brides.

john home

— John Home, Douglas, Act I, scene 1.

Tags: lion, woos, brides

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The nightingales among the sheltering boughs Of populous many-nested trees Shall teach me how to woo thee, and shall tell me By what resistless charms or incantations They won their mates.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Masque of Pandora, Part V, line 62.

Tags: nightingales, sheltering, boughs, populous, trees, teach, me, tell, what

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed; maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, As You Like It (c.1599-1600), Act IV, scene 1, line 147.

Tags: Men, April, when, December, wed, maids, May, sky, changes

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For you alone I ride the ring, For you I wear the blue; For you alone I strive to sing, O tell me how to woo!


— If Doughty Deeds ("If daughty deeds my lady pleases."), The Oxford Book of English Verse (1939)

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See that you come not to woo honour, but to wed it.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well (1600s), Act II, scene 1, line 14.

Tags: See, you, honour, wed

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Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!


— William Cartwright, Lesbia and the Sparrow; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 740.

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You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, And bonny Kate, and sometimes Kate the curst; But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom, Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate, For dainties are all cates: and therefore, Kate, Take this of me, Kate of my consolation; Hearing thy mildness prais'd in every town, Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded, (Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs,) Myself am mov'd to woo thee for my wife.


— Petruchio, scene I (Act II)

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Oh, woo. Look at the time. I gotta get to bed. I still gotta brush my teeth, feed the hog, still got some homework to do, still got those bills to pay, wash the car.

rusty Griswold

— National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), played by Johnny Galecki

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Aside from a couple of signature flourishes, there's nothing to mark Paycheck as the product of acclaimed action director John woo. In fact, there's little about this movie that makes it worth anyone's time and money. With a script that waffles between being hilariously absurd and insultingly stupid, and action scenes that won't cause anyone's pulse to skip a beat, Paycheck is less appealing than a lump of coal in a Christmas stocking.

james berardinelli

— Review of Paycheck (2003)

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woo the fair one when around Early birds are singing; When o'er all the fragrant ground Early herbs are springing: When the brookside, bank, and grove All with blossom laden, Shine with beauty, breathe of love, woo the timid maiden.

william cullen bryant

— William Cullen Bryant, Love's Lessons.

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woo on, with odour wooing me, Faint rose with fading core; For God's rose-thought, that blooms in thee, Will bloom forevermore.

George MacDonald

— George MacDonald, Songs of the Summer Night, Part III.

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Yee-ha! woo!


— Who: The DJ
— Source: Revelation of the Daleks: Episode 2 (1985)
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