"Je ne sais quoi" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... qualification on her fingers, "young Mrs. Cedric Templeton must be pretty—oh, very pretty; fair, because Cedric has a fancy for fair women with blue eyes; not tall—oh, decidedly not tall; petite, graceful, and je ne sais quoi—" ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... discours, n'osera jamais aventurer la declaration, et, des declarations, la Comtesse les epouvante:[27] femme qui neglige les compliments, qui vous parle entre l'aigre et le doux, et dont l'entretien a je ne sais quoi de sec, de froid, de purement raisonnable. Le moyen que l'amour puisse etre mis en avant avec cette femme! Il ne sera jamais a propos de lui dire: "Je vous aime," a moins qu'on ne lui dise[28] a propos de rien. Cette matiere, avec elle, ne peut tomber ...
— A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux • Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
... knowing anything of them but as citizens, and was determined to shut out all such up-start pretensions. The more aristocracy appeared, the more it was despised; there was a visible imbecility and want of intellects in the majority, a sort of je ne sais quoi, that while it affected to be more than citizen, was less than man. It lost ground from contempt more than from hatred; and was rather jeered at as an ass, than dreaded as a lion. This is the general character of aristocracy, or what ...
— The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Complete - With Index to Volumes I - IV • Thomas Paine |
