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Coquetry is the art of successful deception. -- Louise Colet
Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses. -- Coco Chanel
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
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
Coquetry is the champagne of love. -- Thomas Hood
Women know not the whole of their coquetry. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim. -- Henry Fielding
The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Tis a sort of coquetry to boast that we never coquet. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims. -- Douglas William Jerrold
An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself. -- William Hazlitt
Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of white hairs. -- Octave Feuillet
Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception. -- Louise Colet
Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry. -- Edgar Degas
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. -- Victor Hugo
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. -- Honore de Balzac
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
The most effective coquetry is innocence. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Neither coquetry nor love is imbued with discretion. -- Sophie Arnould
Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You'll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends. -- Guy de Maupassant
A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry. -- Honore de Balzac
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

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