Neither coquetry nor love is imbued with discretion.

“Pretty, but badly dressed," breath of an oracle which had passed by her and vanished after depositing in her heart one of the two…

— Victor Hugo

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

— Edgar Degas

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

— Guy de Maupassant

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

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

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

— Octave Feuillet

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

— Honore de Balzac

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

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

Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The most effective coquetry is innocence.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

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

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Coquetry is the champagne of love.

— Thomas Hood