Quotes About Poise

I think you're extremely rude! And you're doing it on purpose!" "Of course. One should never be rude except on purpose." …"Why?" …"Because one should never appear to anything without intent. It's the secret of poise.

She gathered herself up- rather like collecting her skirts before mountibg a carriage

She gathered herself up- rather like collecting her skirts before mounting a carriage

They say that men who have seen the world, thereby become quite at ease in manner, quite self-possessed in company.

every one knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything coolly is to do it genteelly.

There are many marks of a true lady but I believe that one of them is to walk with her head held high while her world falls apart around her.

Social errors made no impression on Bond

I still do believe in carrying yourself a certain way, and I do my best to be somewhat of a role model. I'm not a perfect person. I'm a human being. I'm not the Lord, but I do accept that responsibility, and that's why I do try to carry myself with confidence, with poise, with grace, and with class.

When I'm finished playing, I want people to say, 'He handled this well, he kept his cool.'

To those watching him, he appeared to dance as he walked.

This was not the broken man who'd lounged around the Assembly Rooms. This was Peveral Othman, with all his poise and power, reborn, renewed. There was no dark taint to him now. How had it happened?

And I was remembering that time in our lives together, the time of those ritual walks. I was remembering the way it feels at just that moment when you begin to turn, when you're poised exactly between the things in life you want to do and those you need to do, and it seems for a few blessed seconds that they are all going to be the same.

Somebody can feel elegant without being elegant. It's a personality.

A sensitivity is a true beauty of a woman

Poise is perfect balance, an equanimity of body and mind, complete composure whatever the social scene. Elegant dress, immaculate grooming, and perfect deportment all contribute to the attainment of self-confidence.' -

Before you can achieve success in the higher and broader sense you must gain such thorough control over yourself that you will be a person of poise.

Love, romance, and sex are all emotions capable of driving men to heights of super achievement. Love is the emotion which serves as a safety valve, and insures balance, poise, and constructive effort. When combined, these three emotions may lift one to an altitude of a genius.

A lady kept up appearances and never lost her dignity—even when her world had just shattered around her in the stall of the women's bathroom.

Momma always said that a true lady never lets someone know when he's riled her; otherwise, she's giving away her power and her crown. My

Momma always said that a true lady never lets someone know when he's riled her; otherwise, she's giving away her power and her crown. My

May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of your soul

Courtesy is a lady's armor.

I advocate glamour. Every day. Every minute.

She had gleaming mahogany hair, cut into a sharp, sleek bob and eyes that were the colour of dark chocolate – huge doe eyes framed by black lashes. Her skin was ivory and her proportions amazing; a thin tapered waist, high full breasts, shapely legs. She walked with such casual sensuality that it was impossible not to stare at her. And she was a woman who was used to being stared at.