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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• 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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• Coquetry is the art of successful deception.

  Louise Colet

  Art, Successful, Deception

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

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Weapons, Modesty

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

  Coco Chanel

  Men, Remember, Concern

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

  Coco Chanel

  Triumph, Spirit, Senses

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• Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

  John Ray

  Smile, Beauty, Flirty

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• Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.

  Louise Colet

  Art, Successful, Flirting

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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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• Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Kissing, Use

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• 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.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wise, Men, Grace

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• To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation.

  E. W. Howe

  Marriage, Flirty, Regret

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• It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Coquette, Parades, Species

  "Maxims". No. 110, 1665 - 1678.

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• 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!

  Henry Austin Dobson

  School, Rose, Coquette

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• The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Flirty, Flirting

  "Maxims" by Francois de La Rochefoucauld, (No. 359), 1665-1678.

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• Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

  Coco Chanel

  Girly, Women, Luxury

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

  William Hazlitt

  Passion, Coquette, Proportion

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• Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Taken, Luxury

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