La société est très comme-il-faut, et on ne donne rien au garçon. ❋ Various (N/A)
It harmonises with the point of view revealed in the "Letters from Sebastopol" (especially in the second and third series), and shows, like them, the change effected by the realities of war in the intolerant young aristocrat, who previously excluded all but the comme-il-faut from his consideration. ❋ Unknown (1911)
England I was told that there were two things which an Englishman who was _comme-il-faut_ never did. ❋ Unknown (1906)
Sa femme est bonne, et si simple que j'ai rarement vu un comme-il-faut plus acheve sans etre de la distinction. ❋ Hamerton, Philip G (1896)
He praised both his aunts for their good management of a small income, for the position they had been able to retain in society, and particularly for their lady-like manners and good breeding; explaining sometimes that I should probably find it different in some respects from French comme-il-faut, and mentioning in what particulars. ❋ Hamerton, Philip G (1896)
He praised both his aunts for their good management of a small income, for the position they had been able to retain in society, and particularly for their lady-like manners and good breeding; explaining sometimes that I should probably find it different in some respects from French _comme-il-faut_, and mentioning in what particulars. ❋ Eug��nie Hamerton (1864)
Sa femme est bonne, et si simple que j'ai rarement vu un comme-il-faut plus achevé sans être de la distinction. ❋ Eug��nie Hamerton (1864)
You know she was as ingenious as a Yankee, and had the admirable faculty of doing every thing comme-il-faut. ❋ Emily Catharine Pierson (1851)
He complimented them upon being seen at church; again he said that every _comme-il-faut_ person made a point of attending the ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)
The world of wits, the _gens comme-il-faut_, which I lately left, and in which I never again will intimately mix -- from that port, ❋ Robert Burns (1777)
Now, on the other hand, to be a connoisseur in painting or in sculpture, supposing always that you are no practising artist, in other words, supposing that you know nothing about the subject, implies that you must live amongst _comme-il-faut_ people who possess pictures and casts to look at; else how the deuce could you have got your knowledge -- or, by the way, your ignorance, which answers just as well amongst those who are not peevish. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)
If I were Susanne, I would see to it that he was more _comme-il-faut_. " ❋ Unknown (1906)
It would not be _comme-il-faut; _ not at all _gentil_. " ❋ Unknown (1906)
