Quotes with wooed

  • Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.
  • Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

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  • William Shakespeare She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Lord Beaverbrook Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.
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  • Charles V Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.
    Charles V
    Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria
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  • Benjamin Cardozo Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
    Lecture at Yale University Law School (1923)
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • James Russell Lowell Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: ''Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.''
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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