"Savoir-faire" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I was undertaking when I went to New York. I had had no experience with the difficulties that exist between announcing you intend to live your own life, and living it. The world is a bewildering place for one unused to it. All the savoir-faire and sophistication acquired in reception-rooms didn't stand me in very good stead when it came to earning my own living in New York City. I was timid, full of fears—imaginary and real. I had been to New York many times before, but the realization ...
— The Fifth Wheel - A Novel • Olive Higgins Prouty
... said Edith, 'I dare say old Mr. Bell will do everything he can, and more help may not be needed. Only one does not look for much savoir-faire from a resident Fellow. Dear, darling Margaret! won't it be nice to have her here, again? You were both ...
— North and South • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... lack of clothing as an attribute of savages that it was little short of startling to see a young lady opposite, naked to the waist but for a scanty and transparent suggestion of upper garment, read the morning newspaper and write a note with the savoir-faire of a Parisienne in her boudoir. She wore a necklace of American five-dollar gold pieces, with a pendant of twenties, the Goddess of Liberty and the date, 1898, on the visible side, and as earrings two older coins of $2.50. Nearly every woman ...
— Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras - Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond • Harry A. Franck
... Henriette. "And so Mrs. Rockerbilt has them here on a ten days' probation during which time they acquire that degree of savoir-faire and veneer of etiquette which alone makes it possible for her to exhibit them at ...
— Mrs. Raffles - Being the Adventures of an Amateur Crackswoman • John Kendrick Bangs
... nombre de blesss taient morts. Le vaisseau flottait entour de cadavres. La mer tait grosse et le ciel brumeux. On tint conseil. Quelques apprentis dans l'art magique, qui n'avaient point os parler de leur savoir-faire devant Tamango, offrirent tour tour leurs services. On essaya plusieurs conjurations puissantes. A chaque tentative inutile, le dcouragement augmentait. Enfin on reparla de Tamango, qui n'tait pas encore sorti de son retranchement. Aprs tout, c'tait le plus savant d'entre ...
— Quatre contes de Prosper Mrime • F. C. L. Van Steenderen |
