Savoir Quotes

#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. To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings.
[Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.]

Cardinal Richelieu

#3. Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.

Charles Baudelaire

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. People who dress up in bizarre costumes have a savoir-vivre - not to mention the sort of personality disorder - that he admires.

Thomas Pynchon

#7. It was the sort of house that glows with substance and savoir vivre in those advertisements for the best Scotch. It had wonderful bones.

Robert A. Metzger

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

Agatha Christie

#9. 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

#10. After the leaves have fallen, we return
To a plain sense of things. It is as if
We had come to an end of the imagination,
Inanimate in an inert savoir.

Wallace Stevens

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

Alain Ducasse

#12. 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

#13. In Marrakech, Arabian open-heartedness is served up with a generous dose of pan-African mysticism, a dollop of French savoir-vivre, and a garnish of Moorish grace. The vibe is irresistible to meaning-of-life seekers and international hipsters looking for a scene.

Vivian Swift

#14. Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Aldous Huxley

#15. Il ne faut point donner d'esprit a' ses personnages; mais savoir les placer dans des circonstances qui leur en donnent. You should not give wit to your characters, but know instead how to put them in situations which will make them witty.

Denis Diderot

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

G.K. Chesterton

#17. 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

#18. The first pan-European peace organization was established in Geneva in 1830, but

Mark Kurlansky

#19. We tell market researchers that we don't mind paying more for green benefits but only a minority of zealots ever really will. A campaign that delivers more widespread green behaviour is going to need to be cleverer that that.

Chris Powell

#20. Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.

Rebecca Solnit

#21. (Whichever way you look there is a din of tumult; Whichever way you go there are flames and torches; For tonight this world is heavy with labour pain; To give birth to a world which will forever remain.)

Khushwant Singh

#22. Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.

Louis L'Amour

#23. Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward and not backward. Courage, brethren; and on, on to the victory!

Joseph Smith Jr.

#24. When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by environments rather than by incidents and characters.

Jonathan Meades

#25. Real ugly girls have it tough. I feel so sorry for them sometimes.

J.D. Salinger