Accomplishment Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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 rarely happens otherwise than that a thorough-faced coquette dies in celibacy, as a punishment for her attempts to mislead others, by encouraging looks,…

— George Washington

“She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial little visage there was…

— Henry James

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

“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

“Lady Cosgrove gasped louder but recovered quickly. “Mr. Turner,” she said, reaching out for Ash’s cuff. “Do listen to me. I know that you…

— Courtney Milan

“Cosette was not very timid by nature. There flowed in her veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs…

— Victor Hugo

“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

“Cadance von Cooties was her name, well, "von Cooties" was a title popularly applied to her. There is a reason she has this infamous…

— Damaged

“...mistaken for the affectation and coquetry of an elegant female.”

— Jane Austen

“She’s Eponine — but of a platonic sort. You’re my Cossette.”

— Carey Corp