More people saw me than saw Napoleon, Lincoln and Cleopatra. I was better known than Einstein and Picasso. ... I changed the fashion of two continents. The style of the Gay Nineties became the rage ... women were trying to walk and talk like me. Women became more sex-conscious - sex was out in the open and fun.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself.

I don't like myself, I'm crazy about myself.

Don't ever make the same mistake twice unless it pays.

Reason was nowhere, time was an immovable object nailed high on the wall, except where the world kept shop.

Well behaved women do not make history.