Quotes About Poise

You never want to be caught off guard on the red carpet.

I try to handle myself with class.

I try to handle myself with dignity.

Confidence is what I'm looking for! Comfortable and confident in the things you say. I feel like, for me, that's the hardest part, the confidence.

When did you last have fun being dignified?

I think that a woman that is elegant herself is somebody who can dress herself easily and effortlessly.

I really like the way Deepika Padukone dresses up. I think she really carries herself very well.

If you're really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, 'Hey;' you just very calmly present something.

That is her style of beauty.

Nothing he wore was designed to attract attention, but he made every other man in the room look either a trifle overdressed or a trifle shabby.

Balance is good. You should always have balance... you need it to survive.

Boxing is not always about standing in the middle going toe to toe. It's about poise and grace under extreme pressure.

Ambassadors, of course, do not blush. It is a requisite of the job that they can sustain any manner of insult without any visible change at all to their face.

It was an effort not to let my fingers knot together, but Malkar had taught me, via his own brutal and unscrupulous methods, to counterfeit a nobleman's poise, and the old instincts were not lost.

She was tall, slender, lithe. She wore her hair in smooth black curls around the perfect oval of her face, and her eyes were pale gray, the color of fog. She wore the clothes of a lady with neither apology not discomfort, dark purple poplin trimmed with black lace, high-necked and formfitting with a great swag of bustle behind. She saw us and made her way across the room without hesitation.

The true lady treats the whole world as her dance floor,

even tired she had that unfeigned natural poise which, in certain girls, makes young boys feel like something on the order of an insect beneath a heel.

He carefully maintained the blasé air of one who had been here before and had been incredibly well dressed that time too

(I measure time by how a body sways.)

When a woman walks, she should give the impression of waves rippling over a sandbar.

neither flushed nor pale.

She envied the confidence and poise of the women she saw behind the desk.

then her ladyship, overwhelming in bronze bombazine, regally glided away. Cedric smiled

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.