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  • All women seem by nature to be coquettes.

    Coquette   Seems  
  • It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select only one of those qualities.

    Husband   Wife   Quality  
  • A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.

  • Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose - easily trimmed off when once plucked. Flirtation is like the slime on water-plants, making them hard to handle, and when caught, only to be cherished in slimy waters.

    Flirting   Water   Rose  
    Donald Grant Mitchell (1852). “Reveries of a bachelor: or, A book of the heart, by Ik. Marvel”, p.78
  • Coquettes are, but too rare. It is a career that requires great abilities, infinite pains, a gay and airy spirit. 'T is the coquette who provides all the amusements,--suggests the riding-party, plans the picnic, gives and guesses charades, acts them. She is the stirring element amid the heavy congeries of social atoms,--the soul of the house, the salt of the banquet.

    Pain   Party   Gay  
  • Such is your cold coquette, who can't say "No," And won't say "Yes," and keeps you on and off-ing On a lee-shore, till it begins to blow, Then sees your heart wreck'd, with an inward scoffing.

    Heart   Blow   Coquette  
    Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.297, Simon and Schuster
  • A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, mole fools than wise men for attendants.

    Wise   Men   Grace  
  • Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman passes the bounds of propriety for our sakes, and throws herself unblushingly at our heads, we conclude it is either from a sudden and violent liking, or from extraordinary merit on our parts, either of which is enough to turn any man's head who has a single spark of gallantry or vanity in his composition.

    Women   Vanity   Coquette  
  • The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.

  • Coquetry is the art of successful deception.

  • Coquettes know how to please, not love, and that is why men love them SO much.

    Men   Coquette   Why Me  
  • dont undress my love you might find a mannequin dont undress the mannequin you might find love. shes long ago forgotten me. hes trying on a new hat and looks more the coquette then ever. she is a child and a mannequin and death. i can't hate that. she didnt do anything unusual. I only wanted her to.

  • I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

  • Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and affections, and keep the life of the spirit dawdling around them. Then they withdraw. When physical passion is involved, there is a definite name for such behaviour- flirting- and if carried far enough, it is punishable by law. But no law- not public opinion, even- punishes those who coquette with friendship, though the dull ache that they inflict, the sense of misdirected effort and exhaustion, may be as intolerable. Was she one of these?

    Passion   Flirting   Law  
    E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.585, Delphi Classics
  • New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break.

    Coquette   Plight   Vow  
    John Dryden (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir”, p.28
  • Coquetry is the champagne of love.

  • Wit resembles a coquette; those who the most eagerly run after it are the least favored.

    Running   Coquette   Wit  
  • Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.

    Play   Long   Dating  
    Joseph Addison (1858). “Works, Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition: Withletters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.246
  • In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar,-O, they fish with all nets In the School of Coquettes! When her brooch she forgets 'Tis to show her new collar; In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar!

    School   Rose   Coquette  
  • Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.

    Message to the House, December 18, 1816.
  • A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

  • Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.

  • The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.

    Heaven   Coquette   Bless  
    William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.29, Delphi Classics
  • Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you.

    Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.151
  • She who only finds her self-esteem In others' admiration, begs an alms; Depends on others for her daily food, And is the very servant of her slaves; Tho' oftentimes, in a fantastic hour, O'er men she may a childish pow'r exert, Which not ennobles but degrades her state.

    Self Esteem   Men   May  
    Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.27
  • The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?

  • An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.

  • A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.

  • Ce n'est gue' re que dans les asiles que les coquettes gardent avec ente" tement une foi entie' re en des regards absents; normalement, elles re clament des te moins. Women fond of dress are hardly ever entirely satisfied not to be seen, except among the insane; usually they want witnesses.

  • I've always been given respect because I'm kind of mannish, and I'm not a great beauty. I've never played the coquette card because I'm no good at it.

    Coquette   Cards   Kind  
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