Quotes About Savoir Faire

#1. The practice of any art demands more than 'mere savoir faire'. One must not only be in love with what one does, one must also know how to make love. In love self is obliterated. Only the beloved counts.

Henry Miller

#2. He had that combination of savoir-faire with a sort of well-groomed coarseness which is not uncommon in young doctors.

G.K. Chesterton

#3. The Hell's Angels as a group are often willfully stupid, but they are not without savoir-faire, and their predilection for travelling in packs is a long way from being all showbiz. Nor is it entirely due to warps and defects in their collective personality.

Hunter S. Thompson

#4. A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.

Alain Ducasse

#5. You see, I am not very good in company. I am clumsy. I am shy. [ ... ] I always say the wrong thing. I upset water jugs. I am unlucky."
"We all do these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire, comes later.

Agatha Christie

#6. We do all these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire, it comes later.

Agatha Christie

#7. France can compete with the Hollywood studios in terms of animation savoir-faire, but not in terms of box-office figures. France is a small country, and the Americans are the masters of the world - for cinema, it's true.

Michel Ocelot

#8. Batman knew what it was like to trip balls without seriously losing his shit, and that savoir faire added another layer to his outlaw sexiness and alluring aura of decadence and wealth.

Grant Morrison

#9. They were lounging, in fact, in an almost ostentatious manner, as if to say to passersby like myself, Look uponst my exquisite lounging, foolish mortal, and mourn that you will never lounge with such cosmopolitan savoir faire.

Kevin Hearne

#10. The question was how you ignored someone's request to be left alone - even if it meant jeopardizing the friendship. It was a wretched little koan: How can you help someone who won't be helped while realizing that if you don't try to help, then you're not being a friend at all?

Hanya Yanagihara

#11. Rice in Taiwan, unlike America, doesn't always come out soggy and limp.

Eddie Huang

#12. Virtue is only a conflict by which we get the mastery of our failings; that, by which every man proves his peculiar power of understanding the will and spirit of God, is only a silent working of the inner man.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

#13. You can only conceive of what lies beyond the state of mind you are in from the point of view of the state of mind you are in.

Frederick Lenz

#14. Those who cherish a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in their hearts, will one day realize it.

James Allen

#15. America sends its criminals to unseen corners of our society, where they live they live monotonous lives that take away autonomy and choice, and where their time is completely owned by the institution.

Erika Camplin

#16. Death stalked toward us on padded feet.
And it was not alone.

Melika Dannese Lux

#17. I love to see when ya move with the rhythm; I love to see when you're dancin' from within; It gives great joy to feel such sweet togetherness,
everyone doin' and they're doing their best!

Bob Marley

#18. To the extent residency preferences prevent families and senior citizens from purchasing homes because of race, ethnicity or color, the preferences violate federal law and cannot be tolerated.

Loretta Lynch

#19. So much has broken today. So many things, I don't know how to begin fixing them all.

A.G. Howard

#20. There were no ugly gods. Their first expression of power was in the reshaping of their selves, into forms lovely to behold.

Steven Erikson