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Quotes About Coquetry

Biblionekormanten könnten niemanden ws antun, nicht mal sich selbst, obwohl sie ständig mit dem Tod, mit Mord und Selbstauslöschung kokettieren. Sie sind lediglich am Ritual der literarischen Trauer interessiert. Das ist vielleicht die poetische Form der Todessehnsucht.
~ Walter Moers
Anybody ever tell you you're a cute little trick?
~ Raymond Chandler
Al principio, pretendía aprovechar las ocasiones, a fé de buena ama de casa: luego, se dejaba llevar por la coquetería: al final, se la comían viva.
~ Émile Zola
la esencia de la coqueta no radica en el señuelo y la tentación, sino en la posterior marcha atrás, la reticencia emocional. Ésta es la clave del deseo esclavizador.
~ Robert Greene
Yo soy orgullosa, es decir, inconquistable; maltrato a los pretendientes pero sin la menor pretensión de retenerlos. Los hombres dicen que soy coqueta, porque tienen el amor propio de creer que los deseo.
~ Alejandro Dumas
No me gustan las jóvenes que se consideran interesantes, pues sólo se llega a serlo tras un estudio de uno mismo, igual que en lo interesante se exhibe siempre la persona del artista. Una señora que pretenda gustar por ser interesante, ha de comenzar por agradarse a sí misma. Esto no es bonito: constituye una de las desventajas que la estética puede reprochar a la coquetería
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I was born and bred to be a great flirt.
~ Cybill Shepherd
The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess.
~ John Gay
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
~ Victor Hugo
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
Before taking up the subject of modesty, it may perhaps be necessary to inquire whether there is such a thing. Is it anything in a woman but well understood coquetry?
~ balzac honore de x
A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.
~ balzac honore de xiv
I became the victim of ingratitude and cold coquetry—then I desponded, and imagined that my discontent gave me a right to hate the world. I
~ Mary Shelley
Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Neither coquetry nor love is imbued with discretion.
~ Sophie Arnould
The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men. For the attractive woman, dogs are mere dumb and restless brutes—possibly dangerous, certainly soulless. Yet will coquetry teach her to caress any dog in the presence of a man enslaved by her.
~ Max Beerbohm
Tierna, esbelta. graciosa, encantadora, juguetona y coqueta. aquella muchacha de diecinueve años se convierte desde el primer momento en la diosa del rococó, el prototipo de la moda y del gusto dominantes
~ Stefan Zweig
A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.
~ Honore de Balzac
How dare you touch him, any of you? How dare you cast eyes on him when I had forbidden it? Back, I tell you all! This man belongs to me! Beware how you meddle with him, or you'll have to deal with me. The fair girl, with a laugh of ribald coquetry, turned to answer him. You yourself never loved. You never love! On this the other women joined, and such a mirthless, hard, soulless laughter rang through the room that it almost made me faint to hear. It seemed like the pleasure of fiends.
~ Bram Stoker
Ella lo llamó con una sonrisa coqueta, último requisito para concluir que esa joven podía robarle hasta los pensamientos.
~ Isabel Allende
A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.
~ Helen Rowland
Pretty, but badly dressed, breath of an oracle which had passed by her and vanished after depositing in her heart one of the two germs which must afterwards fill the whole life of the woman, coquetry. Love is the other.
~ Victor Hugo