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Quotes About Poise

A flower should smell sweet, and a woman should have wit.
~ Victor Hugo
The stairs unfold from the ceiling like a gentleman extending his hand.
~ Kristin Hannah
And her slender white neck was bowed over her book, the fair hair falling on either side of it
~ L.J. Smith
Simon?" she asked. "I have a stupid question." "What is it?" "Did you sleep with Isabelle?" Simon made a choking sound. Clary swiveled slowly around to look at him. "Are you okay?" she asked. "I think so," he said, recovering his poise with apparent effort. "Are you serious?" "Well, you were gone all night.
~ Cassandra Clare
He carefully maintained the blasé air of one who had been here before and had been incredibly well dressed that time too
~ Cassandra Clare
La belle Isabelle
~ Cassandra Clare
Never let them see you sweat.
~ Cathy Hapka
I am soft sift 25 In an hourglass — at the wall Fast, but mined with a motion, a drift, And it crowds and it combs to the fall; I steady as a water in a well, to a poise, to a pane, But roped with, always, all the way down from the tall 30 Fells or flanks of the voel, a vein Of the gospel proffer, a pressure, a principle, Christ's gift.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
awkwardness, there were traces of grace and strength as he
~ Gilbert Morris
We all need to keep a strong middle, my friend. The center is where balance resides, and if you're not in balance, you cannot expect to continue moving
~ Jacqueline Winspear
The center is where balance resides, and if you're not in balance, you cannot expect to continue moving forward without a fall.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
How many people we know who sour their lives, who ruin all that is sweet and beautiful by explosive tempers, who destroy their poise of character, and make bad blood!
~ James Allen
That exquisite poise of character, which we call serenity is the last lesson of culture, the fruitage of the soul.
~ James Allen
She moved in a silent ferocity of dignity which barely escaped being ludicrous.
~ James Baldwin
Beauty Is not less For falling In the breeze.
~ James Clavell
If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.
~ Toni Braxton
Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.
~ Kate Winslet
Great self-skills are self-confident, self-courage and self-steadiness.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
~ James Russell Lowell
There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.
~ Manolo Blahnik
Every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room.
~ E. V. Lucas
What a women reads makes her more attractive and more elegant than what she wears.
~ Carine Roitfeld
She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.
~ Zadie Smith
Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
~ Jean Cocteau