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Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say, But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.
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You've missed the point completely, Julia: There were no tigers. That was the point.


— 1950  The Cocktail Party, act1, sc.1, opening lines.

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Julia: how Irishly you sacrifice Love to pity, pity to ill-humour, Yourself to love, still haggling at the price.


— 'Reproach to  Julia', collected in Collected Poems (1959).

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When as in silks my Julia goes, Then, then (me thinks) how sweetly flows That liquefaction of her clothes.

Robert Herrick

— 1648  'Upon  Julia's Clothes'.

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"American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject."

jean-luc godard

— ibid.

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Some asked me where the rubies grew,And nothing I did say;But with my finger pointed toThe lips of Julia.

Robert Herrick

— "The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearls".

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Whenas in silks my Julia goes,Then, then (methinks) how sweetly flowsThat liquefaction of her clothes.Next, when I cast mine eyes and seeThat brave vibration each way free;Oh how that glittering taketh me!

Robert Herrick

— "Upon Julia's Clothes".

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Towards Livia, too, exorbitant was the flattering court of the Senate. Some were for decreeing her the general title of Mother; others the more particular one of Mother Of Her Country; and almost all moved, that to the name of Tiberius should be added, The Son Of Julia: Tiberius urged in answer, that "public honours to women ought to be warily adjudged, and with a sparing hand; and that with the same measure of moderation he would receive such as were presented to himself."

tiberius

— The Annals of Tacitus - Book 1

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Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say, But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.

Robert Herrick

— Robert Herrick, The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearls. reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 534.

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Towards Livia, too, exorbitant was the flattering court of the Senate. Some were for decreeing her the general title of Mother; others the more particular one of Mother Of Her Country; and almost all moved, that to the name of Tiberius should be added, The Son Of Julia: Tiberius urged in answer, that "public honours to women ought to be warily adjudged, and with a sparing hand; and that with the same measure of moderation he would receive such as were presented to himself."


— The Annals of Tacitus - Book 1

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