Woo

Famous quotes containing the word woo:

“Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in a holiday humor, and
like enough to consent.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“She thanked me,
And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,
I should but teach him how to tell my story,
And that would woo her.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)