Top 79 Coy's Quotes

#1. a willow tree was weeping from the heavy rain, a coy pond nearly overflowing.

Marissa Meyer

Coy's Quotes #15473
#2. Gimme the pill. I'm gonna fuck. She was of age. Why be coy?

Stephen King

Coy's Quotes #81355
#3. My best business decision is always to have been unembarrassed about negotiating a decent deal. Not being coy or shy about money is second nature to me.

Anne Robinson

Coy's Quotes #99797
#4. O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

Walter Scott

Coy's Quotes #105430
#5. I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.

J.J. Abrams

Coy's Quotes #136170
#6. Girls bat their eyelashes and act like they don't know anything in front of guys they like, or give a little bit of eye contact, but not too much, or a bit of touching. Or being coy. Sure, I do a bit of that.

Hilary Duff

Coy's Quotes #139445
#7. I didn't understand what it was about men - not all men, but a good portion of them - that turned a good, solid "NO" into an "I'm just playing coy; try harder.

Nenia Campbell

Coy's Quotes #167565
#8. I am not one of those people who like to play. I don't. I'm neither coy, nor do I, in any way, want to ask anyone to put up with somebody playing Hamlet.

Lou Dobbs

Coy's Quotes #191981
#9. Samantha turned on a coy smile and the wily charm of a coquettish girl. A little shiver went through me. The one thing she wasn't was coy or coquettish. More like a cold hearted killer who only smiled at the thought of violence.

Kaden Brown

Coy's Quotes #209695
#10. Besides, there was the way she beamed at me, smiling with her whole self, and how a coy gesture like tucking her hair back could make me want to follow her, help her, do anything she asked. I was hopelessly outmatched.

Ransom Riggs

Coy's Quotes #226161
#11. Every writer, by the way he uses the language, reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacities, his bias ... Avoid the elaborate, the pretentious, the coy, and the cute. Do not be tempted by a twenty-dollar word when there is a ten-center handy, ready and able.

William Strunk Jr.

Coy's Quotes #254012
#12. Then, if to make your ruin more,
You'll peevishly be coy,
Die with the scandal of a whore
And never know the joy.

John Wilmot

Coy's Quotes #313761
#13. The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue, Mildly and soft the western breeze Just kiss'd the lake, just stirr'd the trees, And the pleased lake, like maiden coy, Trembled but dimpled not for joy.

Walter Scott

Coy's Quotes #317639
#14. The dreams continue for over a month. Each reveals a new facet of her personality. One night, she is wild and unpredictable. The next, she is shy or giggly or coy. She laughs and growls and bites and sucks.

Darynda Jones

Coy's Quotes #406458
#15. Just because she was a woman, did she have to act coy and pretend to be flattered when a man tried to slobber all over her/

Nora Roberts

Coy's Quotes #444763
#16. I'm trying to be really coy, and I'm not sure if I'm doing a good job.

Colin Hanks

Coy's Quotes #466831
#17. There is no basis to say I'm being coy about running for president. If I chose to explore the presidency, I wouldn't do it in a backward way. I'll say, 'I'm exploring the presidency.'

Mario Cuomo

Coy's Quotes #503851
#18. So release yourself from that. Don't be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word 'love' to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.

Cheryl Strayed

Coy's Quotes #529692
#19. Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.

John Milton

Coy's Quotes #557379
#20. I'm mildly obsessed with skin care. I do a lot of masks at home, like Elisha Coy's Korean Collagen masks. I also use an embarrassingly wide variety of facial creams.

Nina Arianda

Coy's Quotes #560110
#21. It was your basic Irish summer day, irritatingly coy, all sun and skidding clouds and jackknifing breeze, ready at any second to make an effortless leap into bucketing rain or blazing sun or both.

Tana French

Coy's Quotes #572318
#22. There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy pose, not looking at the camera. And in this poster, I'm looking dead into the camera with no expression on my face. I think it freaks a lot of people out.

Rooney Mara

Coy's Quotes #577170
#23. You have to really enjoy (being sexy). Not fake anything. Sexy is being in the moment, whether that means being coy or coming on hard. Faking is always lame and it never comes across the way you want it to.

Cameron Diaz

Coy's Quotes #591150
#24. Her name is Coy. She's shy, and I found her in my pond.

Jarod Kintz

Coy's Quotes #641399
#25. I think guys are afraid of being too straightforward, so sometimes being coy gets you nowhere.

Holly Carpenter

Coy's Quotes #642701
#26. Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Coy's Quotes #666161
#27. I'm not somebody who runs from the press. I'm not coy. I appreciate the press I've had over the years.

George Hamilton

Coy's Quotes #756101
#28. Opportunity is coy, is swift, is gone, before the slow, the unobservant, the indolent, or the careless can seize her.

Orison Swett Marden

Coy's Quotes #793707
#29. Illusion is Reality's coy lover who cheers him when he is grim. Illusion is cunning to his wisdom of ages, weet oblivion to his knowledge. A bounty to his lack. [Sabine]

Kresley Cole

Coy's Quotes #794150
#30. I think I was about twenty-five when I first said - more or less to myself - that I was quite a good second-rate poet. I repeated it aloud in a Guardian interview in 1976, and some people thought I was a coy old thing.

John Pudney

Coy's Quotes #854698
#31. She [Gypsy Rose Lee] was a sophisticated self-satirist with a contagious delight in the comedy of sex. She was coy; she was sly; she always had a witty quip; she had an intensely dramatic presence.

Karen Abbott

Coy's Quotes #926649
#32. To all the people affected in some way by Cancer...I say stay strong; know you are not alone; and always choose...live.

Mike Coy

Coy's Quotes #941657
#33. It was a Wednesday, the fluttering contractions beginning less than a half hour after returning from lunch with a few of her coworkers. They had all ordered Thai from

Andrina Coy

Coy's Quotes #949761
#34. There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful.

Maya Angelou

Coy's Quotes #961839
#35. I watched that film the other night and it embarrassed me. So dated, so coy, so evasively homosexual only a fellow homosexual might recognize the subtext.

David Leavitt

Coy's Quotes #969295
#36. Truth is no prostitute, that throws herself away upon those who do not desire her; she is rather so coy a beauty that he who sacrifices everything to her cannot even then be sure of her favour.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Coy's Quotes #974367
#37. There may be no more-radioactive term in the English language than what we now almost always refer to as the 'n-word' - itself a coy means of linguistic sidestepping that is a sign of how perilous it is to utter the thing in full, even in conversations about language.

Jeffrey Kluger

Coy's Quotes #986009
#38. In Japan, people have something called their charm point. A coy smile, a twinkle in the eye, a faultless sense of humour, or a laugh no one has heard in the history of laughs before. The thing that makes others love you.

Christopher Barzak

Coy's Quotes #992466
#39. I want to make accessible movies for bright people, but I don't want to play games and be coy.

Peter Hedges

Coy's Quotes #1001581
#40. Her air, her manners, all who saw admir'd; Courteous though coy, and gentle though retir'd; The joy of youth and health her eyes display'd, And ease of heart her every look convey'd.

George Crabbe

Coy's Quotes #1011038
#41. Every now and then, President Obama sorta drops his veil. He's less coy about his philosophy, he sort of reveals his true governing philosophy, what he really believes.

Paul Ryan

Coy's Quotes #1076590
#42. Phoebe, don't play coy. If you were willing to give a peeping Tom a show, and you thought you were doing it for my benefit, then let's cut the pretend out of this and shoot straight for cold hard honesty

Poppet

Coy's Quotes #1087982
#43. She was a carnival to watch--at
times primly coy, posing, grimacing and gesturing--sometimes the
shadow fell and the dignity of old suffering flowed down into her
finger tips.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Coy's Quotes #1121760
#44. I don't want to be coy. It's so important for me to be as genuine as possible, so I don't want to stop when it comes to rendering sex the way that most people have it, which is unclothed.

Claire Danes

Coy's Quotes #1210651
#45. You don't wear underwear either?"
"Either?"
I look up at him through my lashes
and send him a coy grin. "Either.

Kristen Proby

Coy's Quotes #1260423
#46. Why the coy drama? I want him and he wants me; who needs subtext?

Diana Peterfreund

Coy's Quotes #1271846
#47. I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he's the wrong man.

Mila Kunis

Coy's Quotes #1293160
#48. You are free to choose, but not free from the consequences of your choice." Anonymous

Janice Coy

Coy's Quotes #1298315
#49. There are some times you win, and there are other times you build character.

Bob Coy

Coy's Quotes #1299984
#50. American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us?

Peter Greenaway

Coy's Quotes #1345954
#51. Her sexuality wasn't coy or cute. She wasn't saucy; she was feral. Her very presence on the earth stirred me.

C.D. Reiss

Coy's Quotes #1351221
#52. What if it's a shy fish? Is that a 'coy koi?' What? Don't hate me because I'm asking the important questions.

Elle Lothlorien

Coy's Quotes #1360590
#53. Wow. This place looks classy. The smell of fertilizer and rot is really in this season. Remind me, what are we doing here?" she asked looking at him with a coy smile. "Did we come for bait?

Dennis Sharpe

Coy's Quotes #1377662
#54. I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.

Diablo Cody

Coy's Quotes #1379461
#55. I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left.

Julian Clary

Coy's Quotes #1381167
#56. He had never before realized the blessedness of silence - the freedom to be silent, rather, if one chose. He had never realized, somehow, that such blessedness might be his privilege. He was Doc Mc Coy, and Doc Mc Coy was born to the obligation of being one hell of a guy.

Jim Thompson

Coy's Quotes #1389430
#57. The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.

Mason Cooley

Coy's Quotes #1408933
#58. God and God alone deserves all the credit for the good that takes place in our lives.

Bob Coy

Coy's Quotes #1413397
#59. What if the person is doing something that seems diametrically opposed to flirting, like going about their daily activities completely unaware of your existence? They are probably flirting a little bit. Aren't they coy!

Ted Pillow

Coy's Quotes #1420215
#60. Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and uplifts him whom she would inform. The apple that she drops at the feet of Newton is but a coy invitation to follow her to the stars.

Edwin Percy Whipple

Coy's Quotes #1438705
#61. Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring,
With sudden passion languishing,
Teaching barren moors to smile,
Painting pictures mile on mile,
Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths
Whence a smokeless incense breathes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Coy's Quotes #1489162
#62. And Miss Oleander Coy had herself a blue mouth. Little stains at the edges of her raspberry lips where she put her pen when she was thinking, which was always.

Catherynne M Valente

Coy's Quotes #1536870
#63. Don't play coy.
You know what I mean. I get ready to say something
to you and you just kiss me! Like you're trying to
make me forget what I was about to say to you! -Avery Callimer

Nikki Lynn Barrett

Coy's Quotes #1538520
#64. The safest place in life is in the hands of God, even when theyre punishing you.

Bob Coy

Coy's Quotes #1550191
#65. Do you ask what sort of a maid I desire or dislike, Flaccus? I dislike one too easy and one too coy. The just mean, which lies between the two extremes, is what I approve; I like neither that which tortures nor that which cloys.

Martial

Coy's Quotes #1566239
#66. A coy smile could capture him, but it was finally a hearty laugh that had freed him.

Louise Penny

Coy's Quotes #1612117
#67. Little blossom in peach and red
Trapping boys with your pretty head;
Tease and play, be coy and smart
For you will one day break his heart

A.G. Howard

Coy's Quotes #1678960
#68. It's a little early in our relationship for us to be 'surmounting,' but, hey, I'm game if you are. I'll even let you be on top." He looked directly at me, a coy smile playing on his lips.

Stacey Marie Brown

Coy's Quotes #1697607
#69. Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.

Henry Fuseli

Coy's Quotes #1725581
#70. My poems getting published in Russia doesn't make me feel in any fashion, to tell you the truth. I'm not trying to be coy, but it doesn't tickle my ego.

Joseph Brodsky

Coy's Quotes #1733857
#71. Don't be coy, Joshua. No matter how much money the other men here have, they can't buy what you've gotten for free.

Mora Early

Coy's Quotes #1740016
#72. I don't normally watch films I'm in because I'm squeamish about that and it takes me quite a long time to recover and I have to go to work. I'm not being coy or cute, but it's just true.

Bill Nighy

Coy's Quotes #1742170
#73. A Coy Aversion

...a flutter
too shy
to be seen...

Muse

Coy's Quotes #1771444
#74. Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don't need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don't need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.

Paul Simon

Coy's Quotes #1776123
#75. From Chapter 1:
"You're not a local." I paused, unsure. "Or are you?"
"Sort of. Randall Van Dotson is my dad. I'm Rennie."
After tossing her head that coy, sweet way girls do, she gave me a candid appraisal.

Ed Lynskey

Coy's Quotes #1789950
#76. I'm not trying to be coy here; we're just not prepared to give a lot of detail about our thinking, but we will be making some announcements in the coming months.

Jim Walton

Coy's Quotes #1825831
#77. Why aren't you afraid of me?"
Coy looks at me, baffled. "Why would I be afraid of you?"
I shrug, not getting a chance to answer before he continues.
"Until the day you start chomping on my throat without my permission or throwing me across the room for fun, I'll never be afraid of you.

Brandy Nacole

Coy's Quotes #1832841
#78. Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Coy's Quotes #1846636
#79. I told you, God is not coy. He's more likely to hit you across the forehead with a two-by-four than whisper in your ear

Glenn Beck

Coy's Quotes #1848951

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