Top 29 Coquetry Quotes & Sayings

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.

Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.

Tis a sort of coquetry to boast that we never coquet.

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.

Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.

Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.

The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.

Coquetry is the art of successful deception.

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.

Women know not the whole of their coquetry.

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

Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of white hairs.

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.

A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.

The most effective coquetry is innocence.

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.

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.

Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.

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?

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.

You'll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.

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.

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.

Coquetry is the champagne of love.

Neither coquetry nor love is imbued with discretion.

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.

Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.