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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
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
Coquetry is the champagne of love. -- Thomas Hood
Coquetry is the art of successful deception. -- Louise Colet
All women seem by nature to be coquettes. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break. -- John Dryden
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim. -- Henry Fielding
The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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
Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued. -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Scars are but evidence of life," Coquette said. "Evidence of choices to be learned from...evidence of wounds...wounds inflicted of mistakes...wounds we choose to allow the healing of. We likewise choose to see them, that we may not make the same mistakes again. -- Marcia Lynn McClure
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
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
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
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
The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette. -- Oriana Fallaci
A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims. -- Douglas William Jerrold
Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in. -- Joseph Addison
Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you. -- Josh Billings
Wit resembles a coquette; those who the most eagerly run after it are the least favored. -- Joseph Chenier
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

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