Coquetry is the champagne of love. [ Hood ]
Coquetry is love without conscience. [ Mathieu Mote ]
All women seem by nature to be coquettes. [ Rochefoucauld ]
The most effective coquetry is innocence. [ Lamartine ]
Women know not the whole of their coquetry. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Coquetry is the art of successful deception. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]
By her we first were taught the wheedling arts. [ Gay ]
New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break. [ Dryden ]
What careth she for hearts when once possessed? [ Byron ]
There is but one antidote for coquetry, - true love. [ Mme. Deluzy ]
God created the coquette as soon as he had made the fool. [ Victor Hugo ]
If you wish a coquette to regard you, cease to regard her.
Though it is pleasant weaving nets, it is wiser to make cages. [ Moore ]
All's one to her; above her fan she'd make sweet eyes to Caliban. [ Aldrich ]
It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Coquetry is the desire to inspire love without experiencing it yourself. [ Mme. de Brade ]
An old coquette has all the defects of a young one, and none of her charms. [ A. Dupuy ]
Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you. [ H. W. Shaw ]
A coquette has no heart, she has only vanity: it is adorers she seeks, not love. [ Poincelot ]
Provocation is one of the arts of coquetry for which virtue often pays the penalty. [ Lingree ]
An asp would render its sting more venomous by dipping it into the heart of a coquette. [ Poincelot ]
A coquette is more occupied with the homage we refuse her, than with that we bestow upon her. [ A. Dupuy ]
Rivals who blow out each other's brains for the eyes of a coquette, prove that they have no brains. [ A. Ricard ]
A coquette is a woman who places her honor in a lottery: ninety-nine chances to one that she will lose it.
The heart of a coquette is like a rose, of which the lovers pluck the leaves, leaving only the thorns for the husband.
A coquette is to a man what a toy is to a child: as long as it pleases him, he keeps it; when it ceases to please him, he discards it.
For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the meekest of husbands can bear: women should mercifully choose between the two. [ La Bruyere ]
To give you nothing and to make you expect everything, to dawdle on the threshold of love, while the doors are closed: this is all the science of a coquette. [ De Bernard ]
The coquette compromises her reputation, and sometimes saves her virtue: the prude, on the contrary, often sacrifices her honor in secret, and preserves it in public opinion. [ Mme. du Socage ]