Anthony Trollope Flirting Quotations

On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.

Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.