| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 64676 |
| QUOTATION: | Augusta: You have an ant strolling up your cheek.
Tom: I wish it were your lips. [She kisses him] Such a little kiss.
Augusta: Such a little ant.
Tom: Wish it had been an elephant. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Billy Wilder (b. 1906), Austrian–born U.S. film director, producer, writer, and Charles Brackett (1892–1969), U.S. screenwriter. Augusta (Claudette Colbert), Tom (Ray Milland), Arise My Love, in the forest of Compiegne (1940). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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