"Je ne sais quoi" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... each other, not to appear divided by sharp and sudden angles. In this ease, this roundness, this delicacy of attitude and motion, it is that all the magic of grace consists, and what is called its je ne sais quoi; as will be obvious to any observer, who considers attentively the Venus de Medicis, the Antinous, or any statue generally allowed to be ...
— Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke. • Edmund Burke
... 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
... coup a ses yeux qui cherchent le chemin, Avec je ne sais quoi de lugubre et d'humain, Une sombre masure apparait decrepite; Ni lumiere, ni feu; la porte au vent palpite; Sur les murs vermoulus branle un toit hasardeux, La bise sur ce toit tord des chaumes hideux, jaunes, sales, pareils aux grosses ...
— La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo
... 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 |
