Quotes About Panache

#1. I need to know how you did it it.
I did it, said Sweeney, with the air of one confiding a huge secret, witch panache and style. That's how I did it.
(Shadow & Mad Sweeney)

Neil Gaiman

#2. Cachet - isn't that like panache, but sitting down?

Warren Zevon

#3. Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova Scotia to New Orleans. Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won't soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting.

Keith Donohue

#4. You look at William Powell in My Man Godfrey and he's a butler in that and he's very dapper. He's a very refined gentleman. I liked playing around with that, with the good posture and a style, a panache, and a way of moving about the room.

Evan Peters

#5. Dying wasn't the joke, it was the punchline, the final guffaw, the crack-up, when your listeners' eyes should be streaming and your woman pees in her pants with laughing. You had to live with sufficient panache that the punchline worked.

Jane Messer

#6. I don't go for the flash and panache.

Paul Walker

#7. Polysyllables obfuscate a preponderant ignorance with so much more style and panache.

John Patrick Lowrie

#8. I believe in playing petanque with a certain kind of panache - even if you're winning, you take a risk.

Morley Safer

#9. Even illegal weapons have lost their panache. Zip guns and shanks were at least homemade. Where is the craft in a grade-schooler firing a magnum? What is the world coming to? It's not even bad to be a communist anymore!

John Waters

#10. I think there's much more fashion competition in the more junior levels of the fashion department. And that's exciting and stimulating to see, because it's 'Vogue;' it's great to see people dressed originally and with great style and panache. It wouldn't be 'Vogue' otherwise.

Hamish Bowles

#11. You must master the vices. You know that if a thing is worth doing it's worth doing well. If, however, a thing is not worth doing then it's worth doing fabulously, amazingly, with grace, style and panache.

Isla Dewar

#12. To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero; panache is therefore a timid heroism, like the smile with which one excuses one's superiority.

Edmond Rostand

#13. As I have learned again and again from our nation's finest towns, like Madison and Austin and Boone and Bellingham, a college lends a town excellent personality and panache.

Nick Offerman

#14. Notable American Women gives us, with great panache and in eerie detail, a world that is cruelly reasonable within the near-religious limitations of its weird laws and customs. It is a book as unique as it is wonderfully strange.

Gilbert Sorrentino

#15. I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementary's school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5.

James Frecheville

#16. Business is destroying the world, with flair, expertise, and panache.

Paul Hawken

#17. You are just so helpful, Andrei. (Esperetta)
I try to be, Princess. (Andrei)
And you fail with such panache. (Esperetta)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#18. This was thieves' cant. Mosca was a lover of words, and she had a sneaking liking for the grimy panache of cant, and those who wore it like a ragged red cloak.

Frances Hardinge

#19. Our responsibility is not to speculate endlessly about the possible futures of our daughter species, but to become, with as much panache as we can afford, their ancestors.

Geoffrey Miller

#20. There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache and conviction ... no, it's because they say exactly what you want to hear, at that point in time.

Irvine Welsh

#21. Men propound mathematical theorems in besieged cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on the scaffold, discuss a new poem while advancing to the walls of Quebec, and comb their hair at Thermopylae. This is not panache; it is our nature.

C.S. Lewis

#22. Style, I think, is panache. Who are you? What did you do today? And what are you worth to me? What do you have to offer the world? How did you spend your time today on this planet? How are you spending your time every second? What are you doing now? Are you alive, or are you somnambulant?

Tom Hardy

#23. No birdcall is the musical equal of a clarinet blown with panache.

Edward Hoagland

#24. Few of us boggle - though we should - at the fact that Louis Armstrong sang and played trumpet with similar panache, or that Leonard Bernstein and Benjamin Britten were equally adept as composers, conductors and pianists.

Terry Teachout

#25. And if, by the end [of this book], you reckon you might still disagree with me, then I offer you this: you'll still be wrong, but you'll be wrong with a lot more panache and flair than you could possibly manage right now.

Ben Goldacre

#26. Writing is like making a delicious cake. Use the best ingredients, layer the flavors, and finish it with panache. If your product is made with good taste, people will ask for more.

Claudia McCants

#27. Sweet fiction, in which bravado and despair beckon from a cold panache, in which the protected essential self suffers flashes of its existence to be immortalized by a writing self that is incapable of performing its actions without mixing our essence with what is false.

Frank Bidart

#28. See you in the funny papers, he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation.

Michael Chabon

#29. The Nazis were well dressed. Today's racists are a rag-tag bunch with no sense of style or panache.

Dov Davidoff

#30. O'Kelly's disregard for cliche is so sweeping that it almost has its own panache. I find this entertaining or irritating or mildly comforting, depending on my mood, but at least it makes it very easy to prepare your script in advance.

Tana French

#31. The oak tree is firm and elegant and upright. The weeping willow has allowed the burdens of life to bend it.

Panache Desai

#32. You being you is the blessing. You being you is the miracle. You being you is enough. You being you is your soul signature.

Panache Desai

#33. Life's experiences, regardless of how they show up, are the means through which we get to love one another

Panache Desai

#34. Say goodbye to this energy of fear that kept you safe but small.

Panache Desai

#35. Our inner monologues have tremendous power over us. They can affect not only our mood, not only our physical bodies,

Panache Desai

#36. Watching other people making friends, everywhere, as a dog makes friends. I mark the manner of these canine courtesies and think, here comes, thank Heaven, another enemy!

Edmond Rostand

#37. The lighter we are - the more we've dealt with everything inside us - the more we are able to bring into our lives abundance, health, love, and soulfulness.

Panache Desai

#38. We need to find our courage, which, of course, is not the absence of fear but rather the willingness to feel the fear and move forward anyway. Fear isn't going to kill us. It's an energy that we can allow to move through us.

Panache Desai

#39. Your sadness doesn't make you less of a human being. In fact, it makes you more. More expansive. More connected. Painfully beautiful. Raw. Open. Completely alive.

Panache Desai

#40. If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

Maria Edgeworth