Joel Chandler Harris (1848–1908) Journalist, children's writer
Legends of the old Plantation (1886), "The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story".
“Licker talks mighty loud w'en it gits loose from de jug.”
Plantation Proverbs.
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Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer
"A Film from the Sixties"
Poems New and Collected (1998), No End of Fun (1967)
“[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.”
Mary Pickford (1892–1979) Canadian-American actress
Associated Press, "Mary Pickford Sees Talkies as Lipstick on Milo", Los Angeles Times, 18 March 1934, p. 1. Cf. "Los Angeles Times", 20 March 1934, p. A4: "Talking pictures are like lip rouge on the Venus de Milo."
Widely attributed in this form (e.g., A. Scott Berg, Goldwyn: A Biography (1989), Ch. 11) and described as having been said in the 1920s, but the 18 March 1934 AP story quotes it as said that day.
Variant: Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
“There are purple grapes in the Land of Git-Thare.”
Sam Walter Foss (1858–1911) American writer
The Land of Git-Thare, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Alun Lewis (1915–1944) Welsh poet
"All Day It Has Rained", line 17, from Raider's Dawn and Other Poems (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1942) p. 16.