Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.
When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.
[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.
Venus de Milo's mother, who once said to Venus, You never call me. Can't you pick up a phone? Never got a dinner!