Now my dear Lady Teazle if you but once make a trifling Faux Pas you can't conceive how cautious you would grow, and how ready to humour and agree with your Husband. – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, IV.iii, 1777
A saint after repentance will forgive himself for a sin; a man about town will never forgive himself for a faux pas. – Chesterton, Charles Dickens, chapter 2, 1906
He was also prone to faux pas, none as memorable as his 2014 secret escapade from the Élysée. He was captured in full-faced helmet on the back of a motor scooter on his way to meet his mistress, the actress Julie Gayet, who is now his wife. – Roula Khalaf, Lunch with the FT: François Hollande, weekend, Life & Arts, 2023-06-10
We could laugh at our scholastic blunders and our social faux pas's. – The Cornellian, 124, Secret Societies of Cornell University, 1869