Coquetry

Coquetry is an affectation of amorous tenderness, especially of a woman directed towards a man. It is often considered to be a form of flirtation, but may be distinguished as being subtler and more innocent.

Quotes

 * Like a lovely tree She grew to womanhood, and between whiles Rejected several suitors, just to learn How to accept a better in his turn.
 * Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto II, Stanza 128.


 * 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.
 * Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto XII, Stanza 63.


 * Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practise it, because the coquetry of some it restrained by fear or by reason.
 * François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665–1678), No. 252.


 * It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.
 * François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665–1678), No. 110.


 * Women know not the whole of their coquetry.
 * François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665–1678), No. 342.


 * The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.
 * François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665–1678), No. 359.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

 * Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 139-40.


 * Or light or dark, or short or tall, She sets a springe to snare them all: All's one to her—above her fan She'd make sweet eyes at Caliban.
 * Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Quatrains, Coquette.


 * In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar;— O, they fish with all nets In the School of Coquettes! When her brooch she forgets  'Tis to show her new collar; In the School of Coquettes  Madam Rose is a scholar!
 * Austin Dobson, Rose-Leaves, Circe.


 * 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.
 * Ike Marvel, Reveries of a Bachelor, Sea-Coal, I.