"A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always……" — Douglas William Jerrold
"A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims."
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Douglas William Jerrold
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39 Quotes by Douglas William Jerrold
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Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
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Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some…
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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.
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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
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The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
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Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.
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After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
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He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply…
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A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend...a book that, at a touch, pours…
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We love peace, but not peace at any price.
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Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.
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Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.
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More Coquetry Quotes
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Women know not the whole of their coquetry.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what…
— Alexander Herzen
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You'll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
— Guy de Maupassant
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Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.
— Louise Colet
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A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of…
— Unknown Author
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We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism…
— Robert Adam
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Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear…
— Emile M. Cioran
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A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the…
— Helen Rowland
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