COQUETRY

Related Subjects: Courtship, Deceit, Fickleness, Woman

1. A coquette is a woman without any heart, who makes a fool of a man that hasn't got any head.—MME. DELUZY
   

2. There is one antidote only for coquetry, and that is true love.—MME. DELUZY
   

3. The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.—Their life is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any judgment of them, is, that they are never what they seem.—FIELDING
   

4. An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.—HAZLITT
   

5. A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.—DOUGLAS JERROLD
   

6. A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms of person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, more fools than wise men for attendants.—LONGFELLOW
   

7. Had we but world enough, and time,
   This coyness, lady, were no crime.—ANDREW MARVELL, To His Coy Mistress
   

8. As coy as Croker's mare.—Proverb
   

9. Mme. de Genlis, in order to avoid the scandal of coquetry, always yielded easily.—TALLEYRAND