Flirtation Quotes - Page 2

• Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the
  sinful.

  Paul Bourget

  Flirting, Sin, Virtue

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• Venus favors the bold.

  Ovid

  Favors, Venus, Boldness

  Ovid (1997). “Ovid's Metamorphoses”, p.422, University of Oklahoma Press

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• Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.

  Walter Lippmann

  Mind, Fads, Superstitions

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.38, Harvard University Press

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• The moth don't care when he sees the flame
  He might get burned, but he's in the game
  And once he's in, he can't go back
  He'll beat his wings till he burns them black
  No, the moth don't care when he sees the flame
  The moth don't care if the flame is real
  'Cause flame and moth got a sweetheart deal
  And nothing fuels a good flirtation
  Like need and anger and desperation
  No, the moth don't care if the flame is real.

  Aimee Mann

  Real, Games, Wings

  "Song: 'The Moth'". 2002.

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• Music is all about seduction, so it's an ongoing flirtation, but watching anyone do what they are talented at is totally intoxicating. Take even the ugliest guy and have them do something they are really passionate about - they are instantly attractive. Unfortunately watching someone write is a little lackluster. Maybe if they had a really sexy keyboard face.

  Ophira Eisenberg

  Sexy, Writing, Guy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Although I considered putting my eight years of Boy Scout experience and love for our nation to the test by joining the military, I did not want to put myself in a position where I might be commanded to take the life of another, and quickly ended my flirtation with military service.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Military, Boys, Eight

  "Creating a Nation of Philanthropists, One Pledge at a Time" by Ashton Kutcher, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2009.

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• Repeat not the manner of a flirtation; for lo, all the world shall hear of it, and women will taunt thee.

  Gelett Burgess

  Dating, World, Thee

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• I had kissed my share of men, particularly during the war years, when flirtation and instant romance were the light-minded companions of death and uncertainty. Jamie, thought, was something different. His extreme gentleness was in no way tentative; rather it was a promise of power known and held in leash; a challenge and a provocation the more remarkable for its lack of demand. I am yours, it said. And if you will have me, then.

  Diana Gabaldon

  War, Men, Light

  Diana Gabaldon (2011). “Outlander: (Outlander 1)”, p.315, Random House

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• She had never had a boy talk to her like that. There was no cover of bullshit, no flirtation, no added charm, but his look was searing. He was different from anyone she had known.

  Ann Brashares

  Boys, Bullshit, Different

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.21, Penguin

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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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• A lot of the physical flirtation with fear I did early on in my career, when I was a much younger person - stuff I wouldn't do now. But I was very interested in the mechanics of risk and fear in those days. And I found out fear pretty much always feels the same, whether it's doing a rock climb or speaking in front of an audience.

  Tim Cahill

  Rocks, Careers, Risk

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• What some highbrows call rapport is nothing more than a mild flirtation between photographer and the girl on the other side of the camera. Some models get so professional they can send hours flirting with the camera itself while the poor photographer is reduced to the role of spectator.

  Sam Haskins

  Girl, Flirting, Sides

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• The style of flirtation specific to classrooms was of service to the students all their lives.

  Renata Adler

  Style, Students, Classroom

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.153, New York Review of Books

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• Lord Akeldama sighed. 'You lovebirds, how will I endure such flirtations constantly in my company? How déclassé, Lord Maccon, to love your own wife.

  Gail Carriger

  Class, Wife, Lord

  Gail Carriger (2011). “Heartless: Book 4 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• A man might engage in flirtation with distinterest, even disdain. But he never teases without affection.

  Tessa Dare

  Men, Might, Affection

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• This is ideal, you’ll see. We do everything backward. It’s just how we are. We began with an elopement. After that, we made love. Next, we’ll progress to courting. When we’re old and silver-haired, perhaps we’ll finally get around to flirtation. We’ll make fond eyes at each other over our mugs of gruel. We’ll be the envy of couples half our age.

  Tessa Dare

  Couple, Eye, Envy

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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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• That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Flirting, House

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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• Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Flirting, Library, Volume

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1845). “Dashes at Life with a Free Pencil”, p.151

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• I have no use for "men's rights," any more than I have any use for "women's rights," but let us ask: Who was it that decided it was a good idea to politicize love, sex and marriage? Who spent the past four decades proclaiming that "the personal is political," so that every office flirtation and every petty domestic quarrel is a federal civil rights violation? The damned feminists, that's who.

  Robert Stacy McCain

  Sex, Past, Men

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• What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C.... The often welcome melodic lie.... The soul's undersong. The orchestration of randomness, a flirtation with the boundaries of silence and space.... a reminder that the self wants to disappear, be taken away from itself and returned.

  Stephen Dunn

  Music, Lying, Taken

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• The coast is an edgy place. Living on the coast presents certain stark realities and a wild, rare beauty. Continent confronts ocean. Weather intensifies. It's a place of tide and tantrum; of flirtations among fresh- and saltwaters, forests and shores; of tense negotiations with an ocean that gives much but demands more. Every year the raw rim that is this coast gets hammered and reshaped like molten bronze. This place roils with power and a sometimes terrible beauty. The coast remains youthful, daring, uncertain about tomorrow. The guessing, the risk; in a way, we're all thrill seekers here.

  Carl Safina

  Ocean, Reality, Years

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• To boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Flirting, Kind, Boast

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• I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Responsibility, Men, Sea

  Rabindranath Tagore (2015). “Letters to a Friend”, p.175, Routledge

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• Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation.

  Carolyn Wells

  Flirting, Envy, And Love

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