"She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is……" — Heinrich Heine

"She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin."

— Heinrich Heine

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When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves. — John Barrymore
The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug. — Tom Verlaine
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Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of… — D. H. Lawrence
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Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness,… — Charles Fort
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo. — Mary Pickford
There's only one woman I know of who could never be a symphony conductor, and that's the Venus de Milo. — Unknown Author

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