Coquette quotes
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it."
"The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?"
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"Women know not the whole of their coquetry."
"Ce n'est gue' re que dans les asiles que les coquettes gardent avec ente" tement une foi entie' re en des regards absents; normalement, elles re clament des te moins. Women fond of dress are hardly ever entirely satisfied not to be seen, except among the insane; usually they want witnesses."
"Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love."
"All women seem by nature to be coquettes."
