Action Quote by George Washington

Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman passes the…

— William Hazlitt

The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?

— Samuel Johnson

It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select only one…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“If he had but a little more brains, she thought to herself, I might make something of him; but she never let him perceive…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear; she should mercifully…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Poor Victor! poor Victor!” she thought; and then she tried mentally to project herself into the situation of the wretched, remorseful Frenchwoman, the coquette…

— Rhoda Broughton

When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who had to…

— Liam O'Flaherty

“It does seem true that a young woman may sometimes behave in a way that can be called titillating, and that men take such…

— Marilyn French

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a…

— Anonymous

“Was she acting entirely consciously? No: women are always sincere, even in the midst of their most shocking duplicities, because it is always some…

— Honoré de Balzac

Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark naked.

— Louis Kronenberger