"Je ne sais quoi" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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
... 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 |
