Nonchalance Quotes

Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought. (Baldassare Castiglione)

For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved in a tornado.

Mary McCarthy

Don't ever give up precaution and farsightedness before attempting any work, and remember the result of negligence and nonchalance.

Ali al-Hadi

Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

Edmund Wilson

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

Ogden Nash

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

Françoise Sagan

We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create.

William Butler Yeats

I never learned to throw a baseball with confidence, but I knew how to aim a newspaper well enough. I could make my mark from the sidewalk-one hand on the handlebar-with deadeye nonchalance. The paper flew over my shoulder; it twirled over hedges and open sprinklers to land with a fine plop only inches from the door. In the growling gray light (San Francisco still has foghorns), I collect the San Francisco Chronicle from the wet steps. I am so lonely I must subscribe to three papers.

Richard Rodriguez

We went to morning services in variouis places and were deeply impressed by the spiritual poverty of these churches, by the lack of any congregation and the miserable spiritual status of the clergy, the poverty of their sermons, and the nonchalance and indifference of the ritual.

Ingmar Bergman

O joy of suffering To struggle against great odds to meet enemies undaunted To be entirely alone with them to find how much one can stand To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, death, face to face To mount the scaffold to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance To be indeed a God.

Walt Whitman