This collection holds 21 coquetry quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Francois De La Rochefoucauld, Coco Chanel and Thomas Hood.

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A woman has the age she deserves.

Coquetry is the champagne of love.

The most effective coquetry is innocence.

Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.

Neither coquetry nor love is imbued with discretion.

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

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

An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.

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

We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

Tis a sort of coquetry to boast that we never coquet.

Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.

Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.

Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!

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

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

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