Insouciance Quotes

“I always thought there was something French about her, ever since the word 'insouciance' flitted across the surface of my mind the…

— Jessica Pine

“on ne peut combattre l'extrême préoccupation que par l'extrême insouciance.”

— Alexandre Dumas

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.

— Ogden Nash

They say the older you get, the less you care about what people think. The physical reason for elderly insouciance may be…

— Miranda Devine

I would like [the working man] to give me back books and newspapers and theories. And I would like to give him…

— D. H. Lawrence

To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of…

— Walt Whitman

India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The…

— Charles Baudelaire

The whole universe or the structure that perceives it is a worthy opponent, but try as I may I can not escape…

— Julian Assange

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its…

— Barry Lopez

A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a…

— A. A. Gill