
“673. As demure as if Butter would not melt in his Mouth.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
The Most of S. J. Perelman (1992) p. xii.
“673. As demure as if Butter would not melt in his Mouth.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Tomas Bata (1928), translated and cited in: Tribus, Myron. "Lessons from Tomas Bata for the Modern Day Manager." Tvůrčí odkaz Tomáše Bati a současné podnikatelské metody (2001).
What We Don't Get About Microsoft Azure http://itbusinessedge.com/blogs/unfiltered-opinion/what-we-dont-get-about-microsoft-azure.html in IT Business Edge (22 July 2016)
Source: The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927), p. 160
Attributed to Hugo in Old Gods Almost Dead : The 40-year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones (2001), by Stephen Davis, p. 557; but sourced to Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud in Jaco : The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius (2006) by Bill Milkowski, p. iii
Disputed
“She looketh as butter would not melt in her mouth.”
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.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
Ch 1
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), Fiat Homo
Context: He had never seen a "Fallout," and he hoped he'd never see one. A consistent description of the monster had not survived, but Francis had heard the legends. He crossed himself and backed away from the hole. Tradition told that the Beatus Leibowitz himself had encountered a Fallout, and had been possessed by it for many months before the exorcism which accompanied his Baptism drove the fiend away.
Brother Francis visualized a Fallout as half-salamander, because, according to tradition, the thing was born in the Flame Deluge, and as half-incubus who despoiled virgins in their sleep, for, were not the monsters of the world still called "children of the Fallout"? That the demon was capable of inflicting all the woes which descended upon Job was recorded fact, if not an article of creed.