Coquetry Quotes - Page 2

• A woman has the age she deserves.

  Coco Chanel

  Age, 30th Birthday, Deserve

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• Fashion changes, but style endures.

  Coco Chanel

  Change, Fashion, Life Changing

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• The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

  Henry Fielding

  Coquette, Affection, Characteristics

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Neither coquetry nor love is imbued with discretion.

  Sophie Arnould

  Love Is, Discretion

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• The most effective coquetry is innocence.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Innocence

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• Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises nothing, never lies for the sake of a pose, and conceals nothing out of coquetry. She stops before the facts as an investigator, sometimes as a physician, never as an executioner, and still less with hostility and irony.

  Alexander Herzen

  Lying, Teaching, Mean

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• A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of the command "love one another", an undue attention to the opposite sex, and so forth, up to the extreme of salacity, when the mind is wholly occupied by the urgent sexual appetite, and all restraint is abandoned.

  Daniel Hack Tuke

  Sex, Opposites, Erotic

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• A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Virtuous

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Overcoming, Coquette, Difficult

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• You'll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.

  Guy de Maupassant

  My Friends

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• 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.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Blow, Coquette

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• The contradictions in Renan , his feminine sensibility, coquetry, unavowed egotism, and sudden emotional outbursts, all indicate a soul deliberately using distraction as a means of evasion. The perpetual equivocation bears witness to God in the same way as the twisting and turning of a hunted animal indicates the presence of an unseen hunter.

  Georges Bernanos

  Mean, Emotional, Animal

  Georges Bernanos (1999). “The Impostor”, p.152, U of Nebraska Press

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• Tis a sort of coquetry to boast that we never coquet.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Boast

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• We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.

  Robert Adam

  Men, Excess, Conformity

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• I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions and faces, with some intonation that combines ancient human experience with timely coquetry.

  Erland Josephson

  Expression, Class, Skills

  "Erland Josephson obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2012.

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• Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of white hairs.

  Octave Feuillet

  Kindness, Hair, White

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