Quotes About Faux pas

It just came out, a new number one on the list of the dumbest things he'd ever said.

What do you call the unforgivable error?" "Overlooking the obvious.

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

We made too many wrong mistakes.

Tatemae is a charming attitude when it means that everyone should look at the other way at a guest's faux pas in the tearoom; it has dangerous and unpredictable results when applied to corporate balance sheets, drug testing, and nuclear-power safety reports.

Money is strange, too, if you haven't used it for a while. Hell is mostly a barter economy. Especially among the high and mighty, having to buy something is a massive social faux pas. It means that you don't have anything good enough to trade or you aren't clever enough to swindle your way to your heart's desire. Brad Pitt's wad seemed like a fortune when I counted it, but I blow through most of it in a couple of hours.

I have lots of hard-earned knowledge about women through heartbreak - and social faux pas. When I was about 15, thinking I was engaging in light conversation, I asked a woman when she was due. Of course, she wasn't pregnant. I learnt the lesson never to ask again.

I put my foot in my mouth more than I speak properly.

I often put my foot in it a little bit sometimes.

Unleashing a killing spree on Quaker property is a bit of a faux pas

Gossipers derive pleasure from other people's misfortunes. It might be fun to peer into somebody else's personal or professional faux pas at first, but over time, it gets tiring, makes you feel gross, and hurts other people.

foot-in-mouth disease

And I apparently take this as my cue to shove my foot even further into my mouth.

a single faux pas might prove to be a false step.

The other day, one of the big shots was trying to say 'Nice shoes!' and he accidentally told a government minister that his face looked like a butt wart. Not good.

My mouth is sore from continually extracting my foot from it.

My worst fashion faux pas: probably orange shoes with white pants. I thought I looked spectacular.

have a habit of me mettre le doigt dans l'oeil —um, putting my foot in my mouth sometimes.

Right. Of course. Well, then that makes sense, I guess." Open mouth, insert sand-covered foot.

One fashion faux pas that men make is wearing ill-fitted clothing with too many prints and statement pieces.

We made too many wrong mistakes.

Bean, what's one step worse then a fashion don't?....a fashion don't even THINK about it.

for that is all it was—was the greatest faux pas of his career.

Anything that's really grounded in humanity and is real, but just happens to be faux pas, or just really shouldn't be funny, I like it.