Quotes on Flirting

When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead on the short-term.

I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the street with her. I didn't want conversation, or to go anywhere except the racetrack or the boxing matches. I didn't understand t.v. I felt foolish paying money to go into a movie theatre and sit with other people to share their emotions. Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateur drunks, the bores.

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.

And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They killed a boss so often and so completely they had to bring him back to life to pulp him one more time. Tasting hot mealcake among pine trees, they beat it away. Singing love songs to Mr. Death, they smashed his head. More than the rest, they killed the flirt whom folks called Life for leading them on.

Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.

Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn’t it?

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

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.

Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.