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.
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Reveries of a Bachelor, or a Book of the Heart (1850), p. 78.Donald Grant Mitchell
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I will pass over my flirtation with journalism as a way of making a living, an idea I dropped when I discovered that in the fifties — unlike now — female journalists always ended up writing the obituaries and the ladies' page. But how was I to make a living? There was not a roaring market in poetry, there, then. I thought of running away and being a waitress, which I later tried, but got very tired and thin; there's nothing like clearing away other people's mushed-up dinners to make you lose your appetite
Margaret Atwood
Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.
Edgar Degas
Before man's fall the rose was born,
St. Ambrose says, without the thorn;
But for man's fault then was the thorn
Without the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn.Robert Herrick
Too innocent for coquetry, too fond for idle scorning—
Oh friend, I fear the lightest heart makes sometimes heaviest mourning.Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.
Philip Stanhope
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