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.

The score never interested me, only the game.

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Why don’t you come up and have a little ... scotch and sofa?

Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home)

I consider sex a misdemeanor, the more I miss, de meaner I get.