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Coquetry: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Or light or dark, or short or tall, She sets a springe to snare them all: All's one to her-above her fan She'd make sweet eyes at Caliban.— T. B. ALDRICH — Quatrains. Coquette.

Like a lovely tree She grew to womanhood, and between whiles Rejected several suitors, just to learn How to accept a better in his turn.— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto II. St. 128.

Such is your cold coquette, who can't say "No," And won't say "Yes," and keeps you on and off-ing On a lee-shore, till it begins to blow, Then sees your heart wreck'd, with an inward scoffing.— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto XII. St. 63.

In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar;- O, they fish with all nets In the School of Coquettes! When her brooch she forgets 'Tis to show her new collar; In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar!— AUSTIN DOBSON — Rose-Leaves. Circe.

How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away! But while ye thus tease me together, To neither a word will I say.— GAY — Beggar's Opera. Act II. Sc. 2.

Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practise it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason.— LA ROCHEFOUCAULD — Maxims and Moral Sentences. No. 252.

It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.— LA ROCHEFOUCAULD — Maxims and Moral Sentences, No. 110.