“She looketh as butter would not melt in her mouth.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: Dark Needs at Night's Edge
“She looketh as butter would not melt in her mouth.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“She looks as if butter wou'dn't melt in her mouth.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
Grace Paley (1922–2007) American writer and activist
"An Interest in Life" (1959)
“The English have only one sauce, melted butter.”
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
Remark to Adam Smith, as attributed in P. J. O'Rourke, On The Wealth of Nations (2007), p. 184
Attributed
“673. As demure as if Butter would not melt in his Mouth.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants
Source: Water for Elephants