For a long time I was ashamed of the way I lived. Did I reform, you ask? No. I'm not ashamed anymore.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.

Diamonds talk, and I can stand listenin' to 'em often.

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.

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

Women are like roads. The more curves they have, the more dangerous they are.