Coquetry Quotes

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

Douglas William Jerrold

Coquette, Victim, Sergeants

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A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.

Honore de Balzac

Girl, Women, Thinking

Honore de Balzac (1897). “A Woman of Thirty”, p.172, Library of Alexandria

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Coquetry is the champagne of love.

Thomas Hood

Coquette, Champagne

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Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

True Friend, Envy, Destroyed

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Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Miracle, Flirtation

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Coquetry is the art of successful deception.

Louise Colet

Art, Successful, Deception

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Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.

Coco Chanel

Men, Remember, Concern

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

John Ray

Smile, Beauty, Flirty

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Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?

Helen Rowland

Girl, Flirty, Sweet Love

Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.45, Lulu.com

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Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.

Mignon McLaughlin

Flirty, Flirting, Men

Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.42, BookBaby

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Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Flirting, Practice, Essentials

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Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!

Coco Chanel

Fashion, Weapons, Modesty

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Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.

Coco Chanel

Triumph, Spirit, Senses

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The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

Henry Fielding

Coquette, Affection, Characteristics

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Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Coco Chanel

Inspirational, Success, Hater

"You've Got Style : Your Personal Guide for Relating to Others‎". Book by Robert Rohm (p. 29), 2000.

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Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Coco Chanel

Fashion, Courage, Thinking

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A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.

Helen Rowland

Maturity, Men, Halos

Helen Rowland (2017). “A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.45, Litres

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A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

Coco Chanel

Elegant, Elegant Woman

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Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.

Anna Held

Flirty, Valentine, Flirting

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Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.

Edgar Degas

Hate, Forgive Me, Forgiving

Edgar Degas, Rachel Barnes (1990). “Degas by Degas”, Alfred A. Knopf

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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.

Donald Grant Mitchell

Flirting, Water, Rose

Donald Grant Mitchell (1852). “Reveries of a bachelor: or, A book of the heart, by Ik. Marvel”, p.78

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If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.

Mignon McLaughlin

Flirty, Flirting, Talking

"The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

Victor Hugo

Wisdom, Fall, Vanity

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What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased coquetry?

Emile M. Cioran

Book, Writing, Fifty

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Women know not the whole of their coquetry.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Flirty, Flirting, Coquette

"Maxims" by François de La Rochefoucauld, (No. 342), 1665-1678.

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