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Venus Quotes - Page 2

Twere sin to stain fair Venus' courts with blood

Robert Greene (1963). “Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay”, p.49, U of Nebraska Press

Above all else I am a dilettante in life.

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.19, Cosimo Classics

I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.

"AS Byatt says women who write intellectual books seen as unnatural". Interview with Charlotte Higgins, Caroline Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2010.

Venus knows country matters: country knows Venus: For Love, Dione's boy, was born on the farm.

Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.159, Macmillan

Talking pictures are like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.

"Mary Pickford Sees Talkies as Lipstick on Milo". Los Angeles Times, p. 1. Cf. "Los Angeles Times", 20 March 1934, p. A4: "Talking pictures are like lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.", March 18, 1934.

Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.

"A neocon by any other name" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2008.

An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist.

Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.377, Booklassic