Top 89 Quotes About Flirtation
#1. In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
Frederick Buechner
#2. In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.
Samantha Power
#3. This free use of the line for flirtation purposes has grown to an alarming extent," he wrote, "and if it is to go on somebody must pay for it." The Bell companies tried to discourage frivolous telephony, particularly by women and servants.
James Gleick
#4. I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation.
H.G.Wells
#5. It's always seemed to me that flirtation is a man's device for avoiding responsibility. He can say whatever he wants and knows he won't be taken seriously.
G.G. Vandagriff
#6. She had never had a boy talk to her like that. There was no cover of bullshit, no flirtation, no added charm, but his look was searing. He was different from anyone she had known.
Ann Brashares
#7. Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.
Walter Lippmann
#8. Flirtation ... is a graceful salute to sex, a small impermanent spark between one human being and another, between a man and a woman not in need of fire.
Marya Mannes
#9. Her fiercest sincerities were translated by the male ego, on arrival, into daffy flirtation. (p. 24)
Jonathan Lethem
#10. If this was a flirtation - and it felt like a flirtation - it was like no other flirtation in Katya's experience: with a man old enough to be her grandfather?
Joyce Carol Oates
#11. Lacking stamina, it became a withering whimsy of a flirtation.
Lisa Genova
#12. Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.
Marya Mannes
#13. A man might engage in flirtation with distinterest, even disdain. But he never teases without affection.
Tessa Dare
#14. As we grow in our family ... let's not forget that we, as a couple, still need attention ... let's not lose grip of the excitement of our flirtation and our passion for each other ... while we tend to the 'we,' let's not forget the 'us'.
Steve Maraboli
#15. Still at the table, engaged no doubt in some kind of arcane flirtation, she for practise, he in pathetic earnest. Toby
Margaret Atwood
#16. I've never been particularly fond of the artifice of flirtation.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#17. Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose - easily trimmed off when once plucked. Flirtation is like the slime on water-plants, making them hard to handle, and when caught, only to be cherished in slimy waters.
Donald Grant Mitchell
#18. You two start on home, Daisy,' said Tom. 'In Mr Gatsby's car.'
She looked at Tom, alarmed now, but he insisted with magnanimous scorn.
'Go on. He won't annoy you. I think he realises that his presumptuous little flirtation is over.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#20. Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked. It becomes as shallow and empty as, let us say, an American flirtation.
Sigmund Freud
#21. His son was a weak and mentally unstable young man with sadistic inclinations - which went a long way toward explaining his current flirtation with the British -
Scott Anderson
#22. Although I considered putting my eight years of Boy Scout experience and love for our nation to the test by joining the military, I did not want to put myself in a position where I might be commanded to take the life of another, and quickly ended my flirtation with military service.
Ashton Kutcher
#23. She had seen expert methods of flirtation and temptation, not to mention last-minute flip of denial. What men liked to call a tease. What they loved to call a tease. They stomped and growled about it, but they always hung around for more.
Jacquelyn Frank
#24. She shrugged. "I'm surprised your mother didn't inform you of my presence. Or Belle. She has spoken about you a great deal."
His eyes narrowed as his heart sank. "You've become friendly with Belle?" He saw all his hopes for a flirtation with this girl going up in smoke.
Julia Quinn
#25. does not confine herself to that sort of honest flirtation which satisfies most people, but aspires to the more delicious gratification of making a whole family miserable.
Jane Austen
#26. Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
#27. Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.
Louise Colet
#28. Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation.
Carolyn Wells
#29. In this flirtation he was conducting, he had had to rely entirely on his personality, never a good idea.
Jane Smiley
#30. In an age where the lowered eyelid is just a sign of fatigue, the delicate game of love is pining away. Freud and flirtation are poor companions.
Marya Mannes
#31. Flirtation: attention without intention.
Max O'Rell
#32. Whenever a man enters the realm of prostitutes he's always regarded as a possible customer. If you enter as a woman, you're regarded as somebody who could be in the same place. Being a man brings the perspective of flirtation.
Michael Glawogger
#33. THE EXCHANGE KEPT LUCAS warm all the way out to the car. He'd jump off a high building before he betrayed Weather, but a little extracurricular flirtation kept the blood circulating; not that all of it went to the brain.
John Sandford
#34. Lots of male friendships begin as a cheeky snog. Or a little undercurrent of flirtation.
Kate Winslet
#35. Joanna's quietly intent nature contrasted sharply with Holly's vibrancy. While Miss Brewster's flirtation stroked his ego, the spiritual maturity Miss Robbin's exhibited commanded his admiration and respect.
Karen Witemeyer
#36. Plato's Symposium shows that flirtation and philosophy can further one another.
Mason Cooley
#37. When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation that gave great energy and expressiveness to my performance.
Peggy Fleming
#39. I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.
Rabindranath Tagore
#40. The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for the male-with-female-duet dance flirtation and embrace, upon which the zoological survival of the human species has always been predicated.
Albert Murray
#41. Being veterans of the struggle to push back against fundamentalist Christians, American liberals are well acquainted with the pitfalls of the neoconservative flirtation with the religious-right.
Maajid Nawaz
#42. Inside, the festivities would continue, probably well into the night, with flirtation and merriment and gratuitous use of mistletoe. It was an inexpressibly wearying thought.
Lauren Willig
#43. Repeat not the manner of a flirtation; for lo, all the world shall hear of it, and women will taunt thee.
Gelett Burgess
#44. The style of flirtation specific to classrooms was of service to the students all their lives.
Renata Adler
#46. Take heed, Miss Mackay, you're too young to be practicing such a talent for flirtation. Someday, some poor soul may fight back.
Heather Graham
#47. It took him years to realize it was the flirtation and admiration he craved, not the actual conquest.
Dominic Smith
#48. Love met with respect and grand style Love - A flirtation with true lovers of love had taken his salvific beginning.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#49. They just didn't make them like that anymore. Nowadays she was lucky to get some mild flirtation from some leather-faced NRA lobbyist. Forget about doggy-style on an eighteenth-century canopied bed by a certified KGB agent who said things like beg for it my little Yankee poodle.
Magnus Flyte
#50. The ultimate downfall of the computerized holographic receptionist was that there was no amount of flattery, flirtation or chocolate that could convince one to lie for you.
Scott B. Pruden
#51. When I'd see him I'd look at him, then look away, then look at him again. I never got closer than twenty feet, which is about how far out my anti-flirtation force field has extended since the beginning of my life.
Katie Heaney
#52. What some highbrows call rapport is nothing more than a mild flirtation between photographer and the girl on the other side of the camera. Some models get so professional they can send hours flirting with the camera itself while the poor photographer is reduced to the role of spectator.
Sam Haskins
#53. That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.
Benjamin Disraeli
#54. Our interactions were confined to a nod as I settled down into my seat. A few days into our routine and we were like an old married couple
we'd just missed out the honeymoon and skipped straight from flirtation to habit." from "First Impressions
Josephine Myles
#55. The moon is too old, the flower is too old;even the sunset is not enough. The only relevant metaphor for you is your mirror image.
Amit Kalantri
#56. You cold?' He chafes my arms. I haven't been cold since I moved here. This is something else. 'No. But you can put your arms around me anyway.
Sophie Jordan
#57. Do you really think that I don't have anything better to do than to spend my time thinking about you? Digging up a little of the goods on Luc Martineau?"
Fine lines appeared at the corners of his eyes and he laughed. "Sweetheart, there is nothing little about Luc's goods.
Rachel Gibson
#59. At the door I paused. 'So what was your spirit animal?'
'A dolphin. Fun in the sun, endless summer. What about you?'
'Dee Dee Ramone,' I said, and left.
Elizabeth Hand
#61. Was that semi-colon some kind of flirty wink or just bad punctuation?
Azadeh Aalai
#62. You should make someone a wonderful husband."
Even the tips of Jamie's ears were crimson now. But instead of retreating, he clenched his jaw and looked directly into her eyes.
"I suppose I would," he said. "Are you interested?
Bruce Coville
#63. I was doing it again, and I do NOT ogle strangers.
Terri Farley
#64. You're not in love. You're a wonderful flirt, though. You can put that on your resume.
Ellen Sussman
#65. She was determined to sever the connection between her brain and her mouth before any unpleasant truths could escape. After all, she didn't need a brain to flirt, did she?
Anna Bradley
#66. And where are you going?" His voice was playfully challenging.
"To get some breakfast," she said without stopping.
He leered. "I've got something for you to eat," he called after her.
"I might bite it off, though," she said over her shoulder.
Ken Follett
#67. Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
Oscar Wilde
#68. He swallowed. "Have you no modesty?" Never in his life had he encountered a female so quick to be naked. Of course, he'd never in his life encountered a female who should so utterly be naked at any chance.
Kresley Cole
#69. If sleep wasn't necessary, I would have used those 8 hours just to gaze at you.
Amit Kalantri
#70. She knew nothing of Ren except his name, his aptitude with vocabulary, the fact that he wasn't in college, and the way his hair narrowed to a curling point at the nape of his neck. And she hadn't even realized she knew that last thing until now.
Molly Ringle
#71. I was trying to seduce him just by being physically near him. Like, seduction by osmosis. It works in movies constantly.
Katie Heaney
#72. After the wink, his head moved down and his eyes made a beeline to my chest. Ugh. The old man felt me up with his eyes. Men really are all just alike - no matter the age. He was a flirtatious old fossil.
Rose Pressey
#73. You don't run from someone and expect them to follow unless you want a stalker," he said. "You fool. All I wanted was to play hide-n-seek!
Donna Lynn Hope
#75. If I told you your bare ass looks fantastic in the moonlight, would you hold that against me?
Pamela Clare
#76. The blinking of eyes is an involuntary reflex action, provided they eyes are not watching your beauty.
Amit Kalantri
#77. I am a mathematician and I can confidently say that the best figure ever produced is your phone number.
Amit Kalantri
#78. Maybe you aren't as smart as you think you are, Mr. Stark."
"Nonsense. I'm fucking brilliant. Or haven't you heard?
J. Kenner
#79. His billiards lessons regarding double kisses, push strokes, butt caps, creeping angles of incidence, and snatches began to sound like flirting.
Jennifer Harrison
#80. Okay, then, what was he like? Just give me something to go on so that I have a shot at him!'
'A shot at him? Are you on an elk hunt?
Sara Zarr
#81. I think of you only twice a day - when I am alone and when I am with someone else.
Amit Kalantri
#82. I wish I could read a couple of thousand words a day. Words written by someone else for a change!
A. Louise Robertson
#83. In material things, there are seven wonders; in human beings there is only one wonder - and that's you.
Amit Kalantri
#84. Children have always liked the princess story, but they never knew what was her name. I think the princess was, is and will always be you.
Amit Kalantri
#85. Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. Where are Angels like you are from?
Amit Kalantri
#86. If beauty had religious and spiritual importance, there would have been your temples all around the world.
Amit Kalantri
#87. If I have only one coin left in the world, I will buy a rose to propose to you.
Amit Kalantri
#88. I leaned against Brent, resting my forehead against his cheek, but jerked back. "Brent you're hot."
Brent grinned lazily and puffed up his chest. "Thank you. It's a burden I must bear.
Lani Woodland
#89. I don't mind hot and spicy. Actually find that appealing in a girl. And chicken wings.
Julie James
