Poise Quotes

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).

Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity.

The key to winning is poise under stress.

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.