“Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain -- .”
Emily Dickinson
“As demure as an old whore at a christening”
Proverb
“Don't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport's green. No glass of ours was ever raised to toast The Queen.”
Seamus Heaney
“Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.”
John Milton
“You Shy, You Die!”
John Antonios
“Sober, steadfast, and demure.”
“Liberal institutions straightway cease from being liberal the moment they are soundly established.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
