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.
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He which hath business, and makes love, doth do Such wrong, as when a married man doth woo.
john donneThe misery of us, that are born great, We are forced to woo because none dare woo us.
john websterFor 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!
I'll woo her as the lion wooes his brides.
john homePopularity, 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 tylerHast 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 shakespeareWell, 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 hoodSweet 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'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 byronWe cannot fight for love, as men may do; We should be woo'd and were not made to woo.
william shakespeareShe 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 shakespeareIf 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.
I'll woo her as the lion woos his brides.
john homeThe 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 LongfellowMen 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 shakespeareFor 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!
See that you come not to woo honour, but to wed it.
william shakespeareTell 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!
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 GriswoldAside 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 berardinelliwoo on, with odour wooing me, Faint rose with fading core; For God's rose-thought, that blooms in thee, Will bloom forevermore.
George MacDonaldYee-ha! woo!