Julia Quotes
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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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More Julia Quotes
You've missed the point completely, Julia: There were no tigers. That was the point.
— 1950 The Cocktail Party, act1, sc.1, opening lines.
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).
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'.
"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.
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".
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".
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
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.
