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Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.
Sep 10, 2025
You'll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.
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.
The most effective coquetry is innocence.
Neither coquetry nor love is imbued with discretion.
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?
If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.
Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.
Women know not the whole of their coquetry.
Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.
A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.
It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.
Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed.
Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.
Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.
Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.
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?
Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.
Coquetry is the art of successful deception.
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.
Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.
Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.
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.
A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.
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.
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.
Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of white hairs.
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.
Fashion changes, but style endures.
Coquetry is the champagne of love.
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!
Tis a sort of coquetry to boast that we never coquet.
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
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.
An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.
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.
A woman has the age she deserves.