(During a trial in which she was accused of indecency on stage) Judge: 'Miss West, are you trying to show contempt for this court?' Mae West: 'On the contrary, your Honor, I was doin' my best to conceal it.'
[Nov. 30-Dec. 10:] Dirty Blonde ... I made myself platinum, but I was born a dirty blonde.
[Per Alexander Pope (1734):] Vice is a monster of so frightful mien/As to be hated, needs but to be seen/But seen too oft, familiar with her face/We first endure, then pity, then embrace. ... I began as Snow White but I drifted.
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
A girl in the convertible is worth five in the phone book.
A hard man is good to find.
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty--he has suffered longer.
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him two--that's subtraction.
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
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