Coquette Quotes

• 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.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Flirting, Liberty, Desire

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• Coquetry is the champagne of love.

  Thomas Hood

  Coquetry, Champagne

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• Coquetry is the art of successful deception.

  Louise Colet

  Art, Successful, Deception

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• It rarely happens otherwise than that a thorough-faced coquette dies in celibacy, as a punishment for her attempts to mislead others, by encouraging looks, words, or actions, given for no other purpose than to draw men on to make overtures that they may be rejected.

  George Washington

  Men, May, Looks

  George Washington (1908). “Letters and Addresses,”

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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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• Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Beauty, Beautiful, Love Is

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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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• He who wins a thousand common hearts is entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is indeed a hero.

  Washington Irving

  Hero, Heart, Winning

  Washington Irving (1834). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving in One Volume”, p.337

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• The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

  Henry Fielding

  Coquetry, Affection, Characteristics

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• All women seem by nature to be coquettes.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Seems

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• New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break.

  John Dryden

  Plight, Vow, Break

  John Dryden (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir”, p.28

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

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Heaven, Bless, Babyhood

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.29, Delphi Classics

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

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Games, Hunters, Modern

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• The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?

  Samuel Johnson

  Husband, Love Is, Followers

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• 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.

  Joanna Baillie

  Self Esteem, Men, May

  Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.27

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• 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.

  John Tyler

  Elude You, Elude Us, Presidential

  Message to the House, December 18, 1816.

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• 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.

  Charles Bukowski

  Children, Hate, Love You

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

  Pierre de Marivaux

  Men, Why Me, Please

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

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Coquetry, Victim, Sergeants

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• Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense; her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Hands, Play, Perfect

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.193

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

  William Hazlitt

  Passion, Coquetry, Proportion

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• Women know not the whole of their coquetry.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Flirty, Flirting, Coquetry

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

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

  Joseph Addison

  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

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• For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear; she should mercifully choose between the two.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Husband, Two, Bears

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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, Inward

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

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