Quotes About Poise

The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.

No, thank you," said Adrian. "These hands don't sully themselves with fighting.

Mother had the social restraint of an ambassador.

Never show anger, ill temper, or vengefulness, all disruptive emotions that will make people defensive. In the politics of large groups, welcome adversity as a chance to show the charming qualities of magnanimity and poise. Let others get flustered and upset—the contrast will redound to your favor. Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.

She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.

When you accept and appreciate yourself you can handle any situation with class, dignity and respect.

A beautiful woman should wear beauty to her bed.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.

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.

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.

Self-command is the main elegance.

Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

Beauty might be the wisest royal of them all.

He talks the way sprinters run and dancers dance, an elite athlete. He talks as though he was born to talk. At

A lady should never feel anxious about her behavior. The status is bred in the bone. To show anxiety is to lower oneself. Anxiety is vulgar .

she offered herself to him with that quiet expression which is peculiar to a good-natured courtesan.

If you keep yourself calm, poised and dignified, [10] if you observe rather than are observed, if you don't envy people with greater success, don't let externals disconcert you – if you do all this, what more do you need?

True peace is characterized by nothing so much as steadiness and imperturbability.

He usually smoked a cigarette and sat down and introduced himself to someone and chatted—in the sweetest, calmest, most amiable way, poised, adult, and wise.

When you prepare for something, it's hard to be nervous.

I think there's a quiet aggression that you need to have, that presence that you have on the mound, the poise, you know.