Quotes about flirting

"The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age -- what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff."

Bagnold, Enid on flirting   

"We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness -- but the seal is not yet fixed though the wax is preparing for the impression."

Byron, Lord on flirting   

"Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?"

Crisp, Quentin on flirting   

"She learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time putting into words"

Ford, Corey on flirting
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"O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on."

Gay, John on flirting   

"God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool."

Hugo, Victor on flirting
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"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."

Johnson, Samuel on flirting   

"All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on flirting
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"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not."

Mencken, H. L. on flirting
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"The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on flirting   

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"To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society."

Oliphant, Margaret on flirting   

"Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself."

Rowland, Helen on flirting   

"The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious."

Rowland, Helen on flirting   

"Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her -- when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?"

Rowland, Helen on flirting
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"Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on flirting   

"When a flirt fishes for a man, she fishes merely for the sport."

Unknown, Source on flirting   

"The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public."

Wilde, Oscar on flirting
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