The Coquette Quotes

“The mind, after being confined at home for a while, sends the imagination abroad in quest of new treasures; and the body may as well accompany it,”
― Hannah Webster Foster, The Coquette The History of Eliza Wharton

“He is a gay man, my dear, to say no more; and such are the companions we wish when we join a party avowedly formed for pleasure.”
― Hannah Webster Foster, The Coquette The History of Eliza Wharton

“Can you, who have always been used to serenity and order in a family, to rational, refined, and improving conversation, relinquish them, and launch into the whirlpool of frivolity, where the correct taste and the delicate sensibility which you possess must constantly be wounded”
― Hannah Foster, The Coquette