Quotes About Poise

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She walks in beauty.

She was a woman of reserve.

You want your response to be the same for the easy things as for the harder things so that you don't reveal what's easy and what's hard by the way you answer.

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy and Serenity.

They were absolutely lovely, and in their presence, so was she.

Oh, that is pathetic," said Mallory to Jessi. "Look at them. They're going to think the only thing that matters in their lives is beauty and poise. They'll grow up believing they can only be pretty faces, not doctors or lawyers or authors." "I am so glad Becca has stage fright," said Jessi.

He crossed his legs in a slick way that showed that here was a guy, finally, who really knew how to sit down and cross his legs.

Jared hadn't planned it, had never even thought about it, but he couldn't control taking complete possession of her mouth with a bruising kiss. He wanted to insult her, to further humiliate her, to shatter her damned poise. But her body was so female, her lips so soft, warm, virginal, that what had been hurtful and brutal became tender, seeking, questioning.

Her fine high forehead sloped gently up to where her hair, bordering it like an armorial shield, burst into lovelocks and waves and curlicues of ash blonde and gold. Her eyes were bright, big, clear, wet and shining, the colour of her cheeks was real, breaking close to the surface from the strong young pump of her heart. Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of childhood -- she was almost eighteen, nearly complete, but the dew was still on her.

A life that most people will never even know about can be yours in this study, but only if you approach it with equanimity, poise, grace, balance, and professionalism.

Poise is the strength of body and strength of mind to control your Sympathy and your Knowledge. Unless you control your emotions they run over and you stand in the mire.

Sympathy, Knowledge and Poise seem to be the three ingredients that are most needed in forming the Gentleman.

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.

When a man spends the least possible number of movements over one definite action, that is grace.

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

If you feel glamorous, you definitely look glamorous.

I believe in the power of great clothing. It can evoke confidence, beauty, and a sense of glamour.

I love glamour and being sexy and dressing up, and I think it's good to be confident.

I wish I could be elegant.

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.

When I see grace in a woman, that's very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.