Thomas Haynes Bayly Quotes

On both 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' it seems like proposing marriage is equivalent to saying, 'Let's date.' Everyone knows those aren't the same things.

The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men how to capture a woman are far less common, perhaps because few men are willing to admit to such a difficulty. For both sexes, I recommend a good novel, offering scenarios you might learn from, if only because they reflect a lot of doubt.

Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.

There's always something funny about men chasing women.

This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Usually, Valentine's Day comes and goes with just a day or two of news media attention to courtship and marriage.

There was a time when I was willing to marry any cute boy that looked at me.

Are you seeing anyone romantically?" he inquired. "No, I'm not," she replied. "Good. Please keep it that way. Because I intend to ask you to marry me.

No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry.

My life is PG-13 sometimes, and I really want Josh Grogan to propose to me, and he just won't do it.

I'm in love with love and totally believe in marriage, but that's not even on my radar right now. I am not putting energy into dating.

When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of marriage, then is the time to become so involved.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.

I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels.

I write about the men you want to read about but don't necessarily want to be married to.

Why can't ladies like nice guys?

Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to 'commit.'

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.

At 14 I discovered girls. At that time dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship.

A lot of the women I know, that's what they're complaining about - either the man in their life or the lack of a man in their life.

There is too little courtship in the world.