Demure Quotes

13 quotes by 12 authors

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… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films… — Helena Bonham Carter
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… — Elizabeth Taylor
Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train. — John Milton
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. — 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… — 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… — Julia Serano
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… — 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… — Gore Vidal
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… — Jennifer Coolidge
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… — Tom McCall
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;… — 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… — Paula Poundstone

Who Wrote These Demure Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 13 Demure Quotes as follows: