For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, thememoryof Macaulay, thefigure of Juno, and thehide of a rhinoceros.

-Barrymore, Ethel
Quoted in George  Jean Nathan The Theatre in the Fifties (1953).

   Yo persigo una forma que no encuentra mi estilo, boto¤  n de pensamiento que busca ser la rosa; se anuncia con un beso que en mis labios se posa al abrazo imposible de laVenus de Milo. I seek a form that my style cannot discover, a bud of thought that wants to be a rose; it is heralded by a kiss that is placed on my lips in the impossible embrace of theVenus de Milo.

-Dar|¤  o, Rube¤  n pseudonym of Fe¤  lixRube¤  nGarc|¤a Sarmiento
  Prosas profanas,'Yo persigo una forma†' (translated as'I seek a form†',1922).

Fairest Isle, all isles excelling, Seat of pleasures, and of loves; Venus here will choose her dwelling, And forsake her Cyprian groves. 291

-Dryden,John
King  Arthur, act 5,'Song of  Venus'.

WhereVenus in her naked glory strove To please the careless and disdainful eyes Of proud Adonis.

-Marlowe, Christopher
  Hero and Leander (published1598), pt.1, l.12^14.

  So lovely fair was Hero,Venus'nun, As Nature wept, thinking she was undone.

-Marlowe, Christopher
  Hero and Leander (published1598), pt.1, l.45^6.

   Adding sound tomovies would be like putting lipstickon theVenus de Milo.

-Pickford, Mary originally  Gladys Mary Smith
Recalled on her death, 29 May1979.

Venus, take my votive glass; Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be Venus never let me see.

-Prior, Matthew
  'The LadyWho Offered Her Looking-Glass toVenus'.

Lady Venus on the settee of the horsehair sea!

-Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa
  Fa c° ade,'Hornpipe'.

   In youth, before I waxe'  d old, The blind boy,Venus' baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey.

-Spenser, Edmund
  Amoretti,'Anacreontics', no.1.