"His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage." - HENRY FIELDING, Tom Jones

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

"O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed:
By keeping men off, you keep them on."
- JOHN GAY, The Beggar's Opera

"The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry." - LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims