Coquette Quotes - Page 2

• Coquettes are, but too rare. It is a career that requires great abilities, infinite pains, a gay and airy spirit. 'T is the coquette who provides all the amusements,--suggests the riding-party, plans the picnic, gives and guesses charades, acts them. She is the stirring element amid the heavy congeries of social atoms,--the soul of the house, the salt of the banquet.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Pain, Party, Gay

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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 coquette is one that is never to be persuaded out of the passion she has to please, nor out of a good opinion of her own beauty: time and years she regards as things that only wrinkle and decay other women, forgetting that age is written in the face, and that the same dress which became her when she was young now only makes her look older.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Passion, Wrinkles, Years

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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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• I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fake People, Echoes, Littles

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• The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Eye, Home, Sight

  Oliver Goldsmith (1820). “Miscellaneous Works: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings”, p.277

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Coquetry, Parades, Species

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

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• The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.

  Henry Fielding

  Lying, Judgment, Form

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• Ce n'est gue'  re que dans les asiles que les coquettes gardent avec ente"  tement une foi entie'  re en des regards absents; normalement, elles re  clament des te  moins. Women fond of dress are hardly ever entirely satisfied not to be seen, except among the insane; usually they want witnesses.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Insane, Dresses, Want

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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, Coquetry

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• Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and affections, and keep the life of the spirit dawdling around them. Then they withdraw. When physical passion is involved, there is a definite name for such behaviour- flirting- and if carried far enough, it is punishable by law. But no law- not public opinion, even- punishes those who coquette with friendship, though the dull ache that they inflict, the sense of misdirected effort and exhaustion, may be as intolerable. Was she one of these?

  E. M. Forster

  Passion, Flirting, Law

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.585, Delphi Classics

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• Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman passes the bounds of propriety for our sakes, and throws herself unblushingly at our heads, we conclude it is either from a sudden and violent liking, or from extraordinary merit on our parts, either of which is enough to turn any man's head who has a single spark of gallantry or vanity in his composition.

  William Hazlitt

  Women, Vanity, May

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• It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select only one of those qualities.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Husband, Wife, Quality

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• Wit resembles a coquette; those who the most eagerly run after it are the least favored.

  Joseph Chenier

  Running, Wit

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• I've always been given respect because I'm kind of mannish, and I'm not a great beauty. I've never played the coquette card because I'm no good at it.

  Martha Wainwright

  Cards, Kind, Given

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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, Coquetry, Difficult

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• Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you.

  Josh Billings

  Running, Fortune, Ifs

  Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.151

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