Best Demure Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Oregon is demure and lovely, and it ought to play a little hard to get. And I think you'll be just as sick as I am if you find it is nothing but a hungry hussy , throwing herself at every stinking smokestack that's offered.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Hard Play Ought Sick Lovely Hungry Throwing Oregon Demure Hussies

Author:Tom McCall

“Precision marching is less important for the bridal party than maintaining the proper facial expresssions: The bridegroom must look awed; the bridesmaids, happy and excited; the father of the bride, proud; and the bride, demure. If the bridegroom feels doubtful, the bridesmaids, sulky, the father, worried, and the bride, blasé, nobody wants to know.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Looks Important Father Party Proud Excited Worried Maintaining Brides Precision Doubtful Facial Bridal Bridegroom Bridesmaids Sulky Demure Father Of The Bride

Book:Miss Manners on Weddings

Source: Miss Manners on Weddings

“One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.”

Should School Law Young Girl Growth Regret Cat Spoil Joyous Kitten Young Ladies Girlhood School Girl Demure

Author:Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

“Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat”

Sea Cat Fats Lazy Bells Alleys Persian Ribbons Pussy Zest Demure Alley Cats

Author:Don Marquis

“I know that, physically, I'm a very demure-looking person. But I certainly have as much aggression or anger as the next person, and that's got to come out somehow. I'm lucky that I get to play music, and that it's not going to come out in some totally destructive way.”

Knows Way Persons Play Next Lucky Destructive Aggression Demure

Author:Annie E. Clark

“As an actor, you're kind of aware of everything, or you try to be, so you take in certain habits or find certain things, such as how someone sits or how demure they are. You get those things about everybody.”

Trying Kind Certain Actors Habit Demure

Author:Cedric Yarbrough

“Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.”

People Want Truth Is Drag Caves Ladylike Demure

Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost a maidenlike, guest in hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth.”

Men Mean Faces Blood Sight Familiar Compromise Gentle Iron Halls Guests Fierce Modest Limbs Knights Meek Meekness Ragged Stumps Ferocity Demure

Author:C. S. Lewis

“It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed.”

“Many in Hollywood viewed the public persona of the young Debbie Reynolds as demure and vulnerable to be a complete facade. Pianist Oscar Levant once quipped, "She's as wistful as an iron factory."”

Character Young Personality Hollywood Vulnerable Iron Factories Oscars Persona Pianist Facade Demure

Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.”

Book Reading Community Truth Is Speech Library Thought Provoking Free Speech Controversy Librarian Libraries And Librarians Patriot Act Demure

Author:Paula Poundstone

“Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.”

Pure Train Grain Sober Nun Robes Steadfast Majestic Pensive Demure

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited with Introductions, Notes and an Essay on Milton's English by David Masson

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited with Introductions, Notes and an Essay on Milton's English by David Masson

“I appreciate and love women for many reasons, tall and small, plump and skinny, and crazy and demure. I see beauty in all of them.”

Reason Crazy Appreciate And Love Tall Skinny Demure

Author:Gerard Butler

“Many of us reject all of the inferior meanings and connotations that others project onto femininity - that it is weak, artificial, frivolous, demure, and passive - because for us, there has been no act more bold and daring than embracing our own femininity. In a world that is awash in antifeminine sentiment, we understand that embracing and empowering femininity can potentially be one of the most transformative and revolutionary acts imaginable.”

World Has Beens Projects Weak Revolutionary Empowering Rejects Sentiments Artificial Daring Passive Inferiors Femininity Frivolous Connotation Demure

Author:Julia Serano

“When you're a trans woman, you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused of being a parody, but if you act masculine, it is seen as a sign of your true male identity. And if you act sweet and demure, you're accused of reinforcing patriarchal ideals of female passivity, but if you stand up for your own rights and make your voice heard, then you are dismissed as wielding male privilege and entitlement.”

Source: Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive

“The little black dress must be luxurious, rich, sensual, diaphanous, exotic, severe, lush, demure, demanding, frivolous, amusing, and it must linger in memory, but above all, it must be simple and little and black.”

Littles Black Memories Simple Rich Dresses Sensual Severe Amusing Exotic Frivolous Luxurious Lush Demure

Author:Carolina Herrera

“Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.”

Has Beens Made Seems Poet Filled University Careful Made It Novelists Imitation Discretion Conducting Eliot Demure

Book:Sex, Death, and Money

Source: Sex, Death, and Money

“Girls are supposed to be feminine and demure. Comedy isn't about that, so you just have to unlearn it. Certain women are so pretty, they can't go weird enough to be funny. You have to be willing to be ugly. I'm lucky my face can look so hideous.”

Looks Enough Faces Certain Girl Comedy Willing Lucky Ugly Supposed To Be Feminine Hideous Unlearn Demure

Author:Jennifer Coolidge