If you put your foot in it, be sure it's your best foot.

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

Tira: Whatever you're thinkin' you're wrong. I only like him like a brother. You ain't got nothin' to worry about. . . . Say listen you. A better dame than you once called me a liar and they had to sew her up in twelve different places. You're lucky I'm a little more refined than I used to be. And if you was as much a lady as I am, you'd get out of here before I get real sore. Alicia: You haven't a streak of decency in you. Tira: I don't show my good points to strangers. I'll trouble you to scram.

I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more.

I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.