• I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
• If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
• I wrote the story myself. It’s all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.
• When I’m good, I’m very good. When I’m bad, I’m better.
• Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
• It’s hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
• I’m a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
• I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.
• It isn’t what I do, but how I do it. It isn’t what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
• I’ll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
• When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.
• Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution yet.
• I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
• Why don’t you come on up and see me sometime — when I’ve got nothin’ on but the radio.
• Why don’t you come up sometime and see me? I’m home every evening. Come up. I’ll tell your fortune. Ah, you can be had.
• Life’s just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.
• She’s the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
• When women go wrong, men go right after them.
• There are no good girls gone wrong, just bad girls found out.
• Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
• Is that a banana in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
• It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
• Keep a diary, and someday it’ll keep you.
• To err is human, but it feels divine.
• Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
• I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. Believe me, rich is better.
• Sex is emotion in motion.
• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
• Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
• I like my clothes to be tight enough to show I’m a woman, but loose enough to show I’m a lady.
• You’re never too old to become younger.
• I like restraint, if it doesn’t go too far.
• I’m the lady who works at Paramount all day… and Fox all night.
• I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
• A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up.
• I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
