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.

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

Live close, visit often.

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

A man in the house is worth two in the street.

A hard man is good to find.