Quotes About Poise

Therein lies the magic of our paradoxes: the situation was so uncomfortable that he pulled through with elegance.

If I see someone I'm in awe of I'm like, 'Oh my God. Oh. My. God.' But on the outside I'm very calm. I'd never run up and hassle anyone.

If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.

I'm just not very good at glamour... It doesn't come easily to me.

It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.

If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.

There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

Confidence comes from being prepared.

The ability to keep a cool head in an emergency, maintain poise in the midst of excitement, and to refuse to be stampeded are true marks of leadership.

When you walk in silence your excellence will always speak for you.

You're a princess. And princesses are never nervous. Princesses are brave and pretty and fearless.

Her every movement transfixed him; she was graceful and refined. She'd become a woman. An elegant woman.

I'm telling you, it's fu**ing hard to be classy

Noone beautiful ever hurries.

Her queenly head was poised haughtily upon her smooth red shoulders. Her

But there was about her the mysterious authority of beauty, a sureness in the carriage of the head, the movement of the eyes, which, without being in the least theatrical, struck him as highly trained and full of a conscious power. (Newland Archer of Countess Olenska)

Guy believed everything in sex should be done slowly so as not to scare the wildlife and to ensure his own natural grace and poise.

The supreme quality of great men is the power of resting. Anxiety, restlessness, fretting are marks of weakness.

The quiet around her seems to make the focus of her prettiness sharper, the air's stillness focuses her in the eye. As if talking might make it harder to see someone.

Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

You can't buy class.