Lisa See Quotes

Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.

Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

No one teaches you how to be graceful.

There is something to grace and deportment, but you determine that for yourself. That's something you own.

Poise is a word that seems to have slipped out of the lexicon. There's no emoji for it.

Silence is my dignity.

Yes, I am a lingerie model, but I have class.

One has to stay dignified about whatever is happening in life.

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

The most attractive quality of all is dignity.

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.

It's ok to be sassy, but I'll never be trashy, it's ok to be nasty, but you got to keep it classy now

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.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

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

Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.

I want to be as feminine and classic as possible.

Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

Silence is the greatest ornament of the woman.

If I must fight, I'll fight; but I prefer not to spit at my enemy beforehand.

I look at my grandmother, and she has this grace and class about her. When she walks into a room and sits down and talks to someone. Everything she does in life. I feel that women of her generation were really taught that.