quotes about Venus
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
-- Alexander Pope -
Fair Venus shines Even in the eve of day, with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood Of softened radiance from her dewy locks.
-- Anna Letitia BarbauldSource : Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Lucy Aikin (1826). “The works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld: with a memoir”, p.87
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Venus herself, if she were bold, would not be Venus.
-- Apuleius -
Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
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The most distinguished merit of those two officers was their respective prowess, of the one in the combats of Bacchus, of the other in those of Venus.
-- Edward Gibbon -
In Los Angeles, I feel like the ugly duckling, like I'm from Venus or something.
-- Eva Green -
It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
-- Jean Racine -
Chemistry dissolves the goddess in the alembic, Venus, the white queen, the universal matrix, Down to the molecular hexagons and carbon-chains.
-- Kathleen Raine -
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Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
-- LactantiusSource : Lactantius (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Lactantius (Annotated Edition)”, p.40, Jazzybee Verlag
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Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
-- Mary PickfordSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.
-- Mary Pickford -
But my vote for Venus's most peculiar feature is the presence of craters that are all relatively young and uniformly distributed over its surface. This innocuous-sounding feature implicates a single planetwide catastrophe that reset the cratering clock... turning Venus's entire surface into the American automotive dream-a totally paved planet.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
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Venus is kind to creatures as young as we;We know not what we do, and while we're youngWe have the right to live and love like gods.
-- Ovid -
Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion.
-- Publilius Syrus -
The match the whole world, Jupiter, Saturn , Venus... Or anywhere else is waiting for.
-- Randy Savage -
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Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.
-- Robert KaganSource : "A neocon by any other name" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2008.
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I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
-- Tanith Lee -
Be bold: Venus herself aids the stout-hearted.
-- TibullusSource : Tibullus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Tibullus (Illustrated)”, p.230, Delphi Classics
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My film (Black Venus) had been very emotionally draining and difficult because I had identified so much with the lead character, Saartjie Baartman.
-- Abdellatif KechicheSource : Source: collider.com
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