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Lord Stuart de Rothesay is very popular at Paris, as is also our Ambassadress; a proof that, in addition to a vast fund of good-nature, no inconsiderable portion of tact is conjoined to please English and French too, which they certainly do, requires no little degree of the rare talent of savoir-vivre.
Sacred work of nature as it is, all conception should be enwrapped by the triple veil of modesty, silence and night. Kindness is the principle of tact, and respect for others the first condition of savoir-vivre.
He has acquired all the polish and savoir-vivre of the best foreign society without having lost any of the more solid and fine qualities peculiar to the most distinguished portion of his countrymen.
One of the private entertainments here in great vogue, and which is understood to mark a certain pre-eminence in the savoir-vivre of the present day, is a nocturnal repast distinguished by the insignificant denomination of a
She was in the mid-twenties that age when the egotism and rather narrow enthusiasms and prejudices of the girl shade off into the graciousness and savoir-vivre of womanhood.
He knows that the sins of woodcutters and the sins of kings are not of the same family, and that copper and gold are not weighed in the same scales. He is a Jesuit by his garb; he is much more so than they are by his 'savoir-vivre'. His companions love the King because he is the King; he loves him, and pities him because he sees his weakness.
The drawing-room as well as every human society needs one, and a liberal one; otherwise life dies out. Accordingly, the observance of this constitution in by-gone society is known by the phrase savoir-vivre, and, more rigidly than anybody else, Louis XIV. submitted himself to this code of proprieties.
For some reason, best known to himself, he took it into his head to regard it as a want of delicacy, of respect, of savoir-vivre of heaven knows what that poor Theodore, who is still weak and languid, should enter the sacred precinct of his study in the vulgar drapery of a dressing-gown. The sovereign trouble with the bonhomme is an absolute lack of the instinct of justice.
He had at first regarded the new-comer with a civil aloofness, as one not of his world; presently, he seemed to ask himself to what world the singular being might belong a man who knew how to behave himself, and whose talk implied more than common savoir-vivre, yet who differed in such noticeable points from an Englishman of the leisured class. Helen was in a mischievous mood.
He knows that the sins of woodcutters and the sins of kings are not of the same family, and that copper and gold are not weighed in the same scales. He is a Jesuit by his garb; he is much more so than they are by his 'savoir-vivre'. His companions love the King because he is the King; he loves him, and pities him because he sees his weakness.
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