"That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house."
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"Yeah I flirt, I'm not blind and I'm not dead!."
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"Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice."
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"Who is it can read a woman?"
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"Popular, You're gonna be Popular! I'll teach you the proper ploys when you talk to boys! Little ways to flirt and flounce! I'll show you what shoes to wear, how to fix your hair, everything that really counts, to be POPULAR!!"
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"Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right."
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"Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume."
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"Texting is not flirting, if you don't care about me enough to say the words than that's not love, I don't like it!"
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"Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns."
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"The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry."
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"Women know not the whole of their coquetry."
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"Women do not know all their powers of flirtation."
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"Food served is always more than just food served. That is to say, it is more than just fuel for the body. Depending upon who has prepared the food and who has served it and with what spirit, it can uplift the - and around the world, in every culture, food is used to flirt, to be coy, a raise in the employment or to search for employment. It can bring warring factions together."
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"Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and affections, and keep the life of the spirit dawdling around them. Then they withdraw. When physical passion is involved, there is a definite name for such behaviour- flirting- and if carried far enough, it is punishable by law. But no law- not public opinion, even- punishes those who coquette with friendship, though the dull ache that they inflict, the sense of misdirected effort and exhaustion, may be as intolerable. Was she one of these?"
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"I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like."
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"How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service.""
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"Because whipping an atlas at Jackson's head while he was flirt-touching that Frankie girl in geography would have been very satisfying. And beating him with the Eiffel Tower snowglobe while he kissed Cleo in French would have been tres cathartic. But she hadn't. Instead she'd been egg-like: a hard shell on the outside, and a runny mess on the inside."
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"I was once arrested with [Allen] Ginsburg. He was a big help to me. He was one of the few people who read unknown writer's work. Maybe he was just hustling me. He liked to flirt, Allen. They called him a monster but he was only falling in love."
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"Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation."
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"Maybe I’m old, but to me, ‘going out’ means going out to dinner. It’s about the conversation: someone recognizing your intellect, the charm of flirting, and really speaking to somebody."
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