If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.
~ Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Flirtation: attention without intention.
~ Max O'Rell, John Bull and His Island

Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.
~ Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.
~ Fran?ois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

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?
~ Helen Rowland

Women know not the whole of their coquetry.
~ Fran?ois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
~ Charles Reade

The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess.
~ John Gay, The Beggar's Opera

Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason.
~ Fran?ois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims