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'Les agremens et les graces', without which you will never be anything, are absolutely made up of all those 'riens', which are more easily felt than described.

Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733

'Les agremens et les graces', without which you will never be anything, are absolutely made up of all those 'riens', which are more easily felt than described.

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1751 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733

I wonder what our political system will be like after the old guard hands the riens over to the new.

Doctors say Kennedy to be released from hospital this morning 2008

Indeed, in one of those iconic cultural moments that the French produce by the cart load, a video clip from the ' 80s shows him with Catherine Deneuve, parked in a sports car, crooning his bittersweet ballad " Ces petits riens, " as he puffs on a cigarette.

Lighting Up the Cultural Differences Lennox Morrison 2010

We could call it les riens de couture, you know, the ‘little nothings’ that posh ladies buy at designer boutiques.

Holly Would Dream Karen Quinn 2008

We could call it les riens de couture, you know, the ‘little nothings’ that posh ladies buy at designer boutiques.

Holly Would Dream Karen Quinn 2008

I give you this secret as the strongest proof imaginable of the efficacy of air, address, tournure, et tout ces Petits riens.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

After supper, pharaoh, lansquenet, or quinze, happen accidentally to be mentioned: the Marquise exclaims against it, and vows she will not suffer it, but is at last prevailed upon by being assured que ce ne sera que pour des riens.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

Les agremens et les graces, without which you will never be anything, are absolutely made up of all those riens, which are more easily felt than described.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

In the House of Commons you can never make a figure without elegance of style, and gracefulness of utterance; and you can never succeed as a courtier at your own Court, or as a minister at any other, without those innumerable petite riens dans les manieres, et dans les attentions.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005