Top 35 Quotes About Coquette
#1. A fine job of work and a fine colt. Shall I reward you or Coquette - or both?
Beryl Markham
#2. Yes, but not my style of woman: I like a woman who lays herself out a little more to please us. There should be a little filigree about a woman
something of the coquette. A man likes a sort of challenge. The more of a dead set she makes at you the better.
George Eliot
#3. For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear; she should mercifully choose between the two.
Jean De La Bruyere
#4. Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.
John Tyler
#5. I swear, you would play the coquette with a well-upholstered sofa."
"First, I would not. And second, how handsome is this sofa?
Mackenzi Lee
#6. Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you.
Josh Billings
#7. I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
Thomas Carlyle
#8. I've always been given respect because I'm kind of mannish, and I'm not a great beauty. I've never played the coquette card because I'm no good at it.
Martha Wainwright
#9. 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.
Lord Byron
#10. Scars are but evidence of life," Coquette said. "Evidence of choices to be learned from ... evidence of wounds ... wounds inflicted of mistakes ... wounds we choose to allow the healing of. We likewise choose to see them, that we may not make the same mistakes again.
Marcia Lynn McClure
#11. 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
#12. The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
Henry Fielding
#13. A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, mole fools than wise men for attendants.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#14. He who wins a thousand common hearts is entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is indeed a hero.
Washington Irving
#15. Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.
Joseph Addison
#16. Wit resembles a coquette; those who the most eagerly run after it are the least favored.
Joseph Chenier
#17. 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, words, or actions, given for no other purpose than to draw men on to make overtures that they may be rejected.
George Washington
#18. A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.
Douglas Jerrold
#19. She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial little visage there was no mockery, no irony. Before long it became obvious that she was much disposed towards conversation.
Henry James
#20. The bearded creatures are quite as eager for praise, quite as finikin over their toilets, quite as proud of their personal advantages, quite as conscious of their powers of fascination, as any coquette in the world.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#21. 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.
Jean De La Bruyere
#22. I am afraid that she is a coquette, for she is always flirting with the wind.
Oscar Wilde
#23. An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.
William Hazlitt
#24. The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.
Oriana Fallaci
#25. New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break.
John Dryden
#27. Ce n'est gue' re que dans les asiles que les coquettes gardent avec ente tement une foi entie' re en des regards absents; normalement, elles re clament des te moins. Women fond of dress are hardly ever entirely satisfied not to be seen, except among the insane; usually they want witnesses.
Simone De Beauvoir
#28. A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
#29. I've got nothing to prove and I piss off all the right people.
The Coquette
#32. Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#35. Coquettes know how to please, not love, and that is why men love them SO much.
Pierre De Marivaux
