Women find it far more difficult to overcome their…

Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.

— Edgar Degas

It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises…

— Alexander Herzen

Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The most effective coquetry is innocence.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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…

— Henry Austin Dobson

A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.

— Honore de Balzac

Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of white hairs.

— Octave Feuillet

A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of the command "love one…

— Daniel Hack Tuke

We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry…

— Robert Adam

You'll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.

— Guy de Maupassant

Coquetry is the champagne of love.

— Thomas Hood

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

— William Hazlitt

Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.

— Louise Colet