Quotes About Faux Pas

#1. Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

Edith Head

#2. A fashion faux pas is what happens when you're not confident with yourself.

Loulou De La Falaise

#3. I'd love to say fashion faux pas differ from country to country, but they don't.

Trinny Woodall

#4. I wouldn't call it a faux pas, but I have about 12 tracksuits. I always travel in a tracksuit. I feel it makes people happy when they see me.

Jenny Lewis

#5. Tatemae is a charming attitude when it means that everyone should look at the other way at a guest's faux pas in the tearoom; it has dangerous and unpredictable results when applied to corporate balance sheets, drug testing, and nuclear-power safety reports.

Alex Kerr

#6. Fashion faux pas should be celebrated. I enjoy them because it means we're not all clones.

Linda Evangelista

#7. When I was dating and the wine list was presented to my male companion, I tried to ignore this unfortunate faux pas. But this practice still goes on ... Closing note to all servers and sommeliers: please include women in wine selection. Okay?

Alpana Singh

#8. I got up the nerve to ask her if she remembered that first visit and my terrible faux pas. She pretended, in true Japanese fashion, that it had never happened.

Katherine Paterson

#9. Anything that's really grounded in humanity and is real, but just happens to be faux pas, or just really shouldn't be funny, I like it.

Rockmond Dunbar

#10. Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.

Dennis Prager

#11. Gossipers derive pleasure from other people's misfortunes. It might be fun to peer into somebody else's personal or professional faux pas at first, but over time, it gets tiring, makes you feel gross, and hurts other people.

Travis Bradberry

#12. the fact that I was pretty sure it was some sort of fashion faux pas to be wearing the same thing as the dead body at a funeral, and I didn't need to give anyone else the opportunity to notice. "I'm

Lisa Emme

#13. The secular humanist, although he would never dream of committing the social faux pas of calling a black man a negro, feels perfectly free to castigate Christians and their leaders in any way he likes.

Frank Schaeffer

#14. Most people sitting at home aren't cool, successful, witty Hollywood stars, but they all worry about what people think of them when they faux pas.

Ricky Gervais

#15. I've turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I've made social faux pas a plenty. I've put one foot in front of the other and fallen over.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#16. One's own flowers and some of one's own vegetables make acceptable, free, self-congratulatory gifts when visiting friends, though giving zucchini - or leaving it on the doorstep, ringing the bell, and running - is a social faux pas.

Barbara Holland

#17. People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone's demise or some big faux-pas they made, everyone wants to tune into it, because it's nice to know that someone else made a mistake. It makes you feel elevated for a moment.

Madonna Ciccone

#18. I stopped the blade two inches before it touched Andrea's neck. Because she was my best friend, and sticking knives into your best friend's windpipe was generally considered to be a social faux pas.

Ilona Andrews

#19. My biggest faux pas is not giving time for myself.

Donna Karan

#20. That's what writers do - the good ones anyway - we watched and we learned the faux pas of human nature. The delicate ways people came undone, the tiny little frays in the tapestry.

Tarryn Fisher

#21. The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.

Wilson Mizner

#22. My worst fashion faux pas: probably orange shoes with white pants. I thought I looked spectacular.

Kevin O'Leary

#23. Today's mom watches her every child-rearing step lest she commit some egregious and apocalyptic parenting faux pas that will certainly doom her child to a life spent sleeping under overpasses, or worse, not going to Harvard.

John Rosemond

#24. To a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.

Florence King

#25. He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#26. Black Eyed Peas is a chameleon group.

Will.i.am

#27. Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Epicurus

#28. Sleep comes, no matter how deep the sadness cuts. It's like a gift from the universe.

Corey Ann Haydu

#29. The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.

Sean Penn

#30. Terry Kitchen said that the only moments he ever experienced as non-epiphanies, when God left him alone, were those following sex and the two times he took heroin.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#31. Here in Denver, we want to thank Jeremy Jacobs for the way he runs his business. Otherwise, we wouldn't have gotten Ray Bourque and won a Stanley Cup.

Joe Sakic

#32. I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.

Chuck Mangione

#33. I feel fortunate to have made records during an era where people actually bought music. But I have friends in struggling up-and-coming bands that will certainly never be able to pay the rent, because music has been devalued.

Tom Morello

#34. Courageous people know that old ways of doing things shouldn't stand in the way of a better solution.

Frank Sonnenberg

#35. Did it really have to be like this?that the source of Man's contentment becomes the source of his misery?

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe