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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Coquetry |
| 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. | 1 |
| 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. | 2 |
| 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. | 3 |
| 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. | 4 |
| Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practise it, because the coquetry of some it restrained by fear or by reason. La Rochefoucauld—Maxims. No. 252. | 5 |
| It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it. La Rochefoucauld—Maxims. No. 110. | 6 |
| Women know not the whole of their coquetry. La Rochefoucauld—Maxims. No. 342. | 7 |
| The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry. La Rochefoucauld—Maxims. No. 359. | 8 |
| 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. Ik Marvel—Reveries of a Bachelor. Sea-Coal. I. | 9 |
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