No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.

I've been things and seen places.

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)

You may think you're in love when the passions of sex get hold of you, but if you didn't love the man before, you won't love him after. Like him, maybe, but not love him.

I have never loved a man as much as I have loved myself