Woo Quotes

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Michael Bassey Johnson
“Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives.”
Michael Bassey Johnson, Scars Of Beauty

Dannika Dark
“A man should be more original than a bouquet of roses and a box of chocolates. Flowers die and sugar sticks to your hips like a permanent record to a criminal.”
Dannika Dark, Seven Years

Mary Balogh
“Love did not have to make sense. It did not have to be worthy. It did not have to be earned. It did not have to woo.
It just simply was.”
Mary Balogh, Then Comes Seduction

Michael Bassey Johnson
“The game never changes, you must be in the secret before you are shown to the public.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

Anaïs Nin
“He never treated her as a wife. He wooed her over and over again, with presents, flowers, new pleasures.”
Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus

Kylie Scott
“Interesting. I’m going to tell you what I told Killer at puppy training today when he tried to mount a teacup poodle he’d only just met. If she means something to you, you gotta do the woo, son. You can’t just be trying to stick it in.”
Kylie Scott, Lead
tags: funny, mal, woo

Sean Carroll
“Where misunderstanding dwells, misuse will not be far behind. No theory in the history of science has been more misused and abused by cranks and charlatans—and misunderstood by people struggling in good faith with difficult ideas—than quantum mechanics.”
Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

Robin Hobb
“I'll never miss a chance to remind you of what a brat you were. A gloriously beautiful and very spoiled brat. I was utterly charmed by your complete self-absorption. It was rather like courting a cat.”
Robin Hobb, City of Dragons

Pawan Mishra
“In troubled times one wishes for a sound sleep more than usual, but, realizing its amplified importance, sleep smugly impedes all attempts to woo it.”
Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy

“How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of the market for works of this kind [pseudoscience/'woo'], for philosophy-fiction. Just as compulsory primary education created a market catered for by cheap dailies and weeklies, so the spread of secondary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.”
Peter B. Medawar

Georgette Heyer
“Not but what he deserves a sharp lesson! He very nearly made me drop these unfortunate kittens, mauling me about in that detestable way! There is *nothing* I dislike more!'

'I agree that he needs a lesson. I should rather suppose it to have been his first attempt. He ought, of course, to have got rid of the livestock,' said Damerel, taking the basket out of her hand, and setting it down, 'for while you were preoccupied with their safety what could he expect but a rebuff?”
Georgette Heyer, Venetia

Munia Khan
“When you kiss, my world falls apart
Heaven comes down to woo my heart”
Munia Khan

Richard Dawkins
“To describe the forests of the world as its 'lungs' does no harm, and it might do some good if it encourages people to preserve them. But the rhetoric of holistic harmony can degenerate into a kind of dotty, Prince Charles-style mysticism.”
Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“For breakfast to be called ‘in bed’ instead of ‘on top of a bed,’ the house in which it is about to be eaten has to have at least two rooms (excluding the kitchen); (at least) three, if it has a bathroom.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Victoria Walters
“I will woo you every day for the rest of your life if that will make you happy.”
Victoria Walters, The Love Interest