"It is too much for a husband to……" — Jean de la Bruyere
"It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select only one of those qualities."
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Jean de la Bruyere
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I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.
— Joseph Addison
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He who wins a thousand common hearts is entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the…
— Washington Irving
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Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette-the more you woo her, the more apt is…
— John Tyler
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A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.
— Douglas William Jerrold
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Coquettes know how to please, not love, and that is why men love them SO much.
— Pierre de Marivaux
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I've always been given respect because I'm kind of mannish, and I'm not a great beauty. I've never played the…
— Martha Wainwright
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A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.
— William Hazlitt
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The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
— Henry Fielding
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In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar,-O, they fish with all nets In the School of Coquettes!…
— Henry Austin Dobson
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Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If…
— William Hazlitt
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