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Letter "C" » coquettes
«A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims»
Author: Douglas Jerrold
(Humorist, Journalist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
coquette, coquettes, fresh, lookout, recruit, recruited, recruiting-sergeant, recruiting, recruits, sergeant, victims
«The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim»
Author: Henry Fielding
(Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
affectation, affectations, coquette, coquettes, governed, whim
«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.»
«A coquette is a woman without any heart, who makes a fool of a man that hasn't got any head»
«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.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Relationships
| Keywords:
agree, amusing, coquette, coquettes, echo, tires
«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»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| Keywords:
accomplishments, admirer, admirers, attendants, charms, coquette, coquettes, lady friend, mole, moles, young lady
«The coquettes of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess»
Author: John Gay
(Dramatist, Poet)
| Keywords:
coquette, coquettes, dispossess, dispossessed, dispossessing
«An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Passion
| Keywords:
accomplished, coquette, coquettes, excites, proportion, The Passions
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