Coquetry

Coquetry is as fascinating to those who practise it, as to those whom it seduces; and she found herself, shortly, more happy by a conquest effected by wiles and by art, than by any devotion paid straight forward, and uncourted.

Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth 1796

Lady (pseudonym, don't you think?) lies the Country of Eligibleness, and within it, the cliffside Land of Love of Admiration ( & Vanity) as well as the "High grounds of Matrimonial," camouflaged by the sheer drop into Land of Coquetry where one encounters "Male Traps: Province of Deception," "Affectation," and "Valley of Mother's Artifice."

Suzanne O'Malley: Day 14 of 29: Secrets to the Map of a Women's Heart Suzanne O'Malley 2012

Lady (pseudonym, don't you think?) lies the Country of Eligibleness, and within it, the cliffside Land of Love of Admiration ( & Vanity) as well as the "High grounds of Matrimonial," camouflaged by the sheer drop into Land of Coquetry where one encounters "Male Traps: Province of Deception," "Affectation," and "Valley of Mother's Artifice."

Suzanne O'Malley: Day 14 of 29: Secrets to the Map of a Women's Heart Suzanne O'Malley 2012

Coquetry is as fascinating to those who practise it, as to those whom it seduces; and she found herself, shortly, more happy by a conquest effected by wiles and by art, than by any devotion paid straight forward, and uncourted.

Camilla 2008

Coquetry was as foreign to the ingenuousness of her nature, as to the dignity of all her early maternal precepts.

Camilla 2008

One of her best-known poems is The Art of Coquetry (1747) but not everyone appreciated the work.

Charlotte (Ramsay) Lennox (c.1729-1804) 2008

(Coquetry! the Marquise simply threw it at me, like a challenge, this evening!)

A Woman of Thirty 2007

Music and drawing: Her character was gay, open, and good-humoured; and the graceful simplicity of her dress and manners formed an advantageous contrast to the art and studied Coquetry of the

The Monk 2004

Coquetry was with her not a vice of the heart or of an unscrupulous mind; having nothing better to do, she enjoyed it as a legitimate pastime, without giving it any importance or feeling any scruples.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

Coquetry had never been his sin, and often weeks passed without his looking in a mirror, so indifferent was he when making his toilet.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various