Old fashioned ways of courtship

So all my friends told me to try online dating and everyone readily runs lists of people for whom it has worked.  For years I fought it succumbing to resorting to the online dating game.  I really thought it would show a sense of desperation.  I felt it would be ME admitting to failure.  Failure that I was not packaged well enough to be found desirable by some ruggedly handsome man.  Thought that happened to other people and since I mistakenly thought I was reasonable attractive I would find someone.

Well after eight full years of me waiting for Mr. Right to ask me on a date do I just throw in the towel and call it a day as I did the six months of effort that I put into online dating?  Friends tell me if I wanted to date I would be dating but since I am really old fashioned and truly need the courtship thing going on.  But alas no ruggedly handsome man on the horizon.  I am waiting on someone to ask me out.  I have been holding onto to the idea that there are some men out there who are just as old fashioned as I am.  Or am I on a dream boat?