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@xy, member from Sept. 25, 2023
„A művészet hivatása, hogy pótolja az életet, melyet nélkülözünk.”
Richard Wagner (1813–1883) német zeneszerző, karmester, esztéta, 1813-83
“I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.”
Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol
“A man in the house is worth two in the street.”
Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol
Belle of the Nineties (1934)
“Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.”
Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol
#149 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne
“Why don't you come up sometime and see me? … Come on up, I'll tell your fortune.”
Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol
She Done Him Wrong (1933); this statement has become widely misquoted with the paraphrase: "Why don't you come up and see me sometime?"
“I feel like a million tonight. But one at a time.”
Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol
Myra Breckinridge (1970)
“Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?”
Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol
Sextette (1978)
Source: [Quote Investigator: Exploring the Origin of Quotes, http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/08/20/glad-to-see/]
Source: [The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations, https://books.google.com/books?id=whg05Z4Nwo0C&pg=PA625]
“Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.”
Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol
Response to an exclamation, "Goodness! What lovely diamonds!" in Night After Night (1932). She later used Goodness had nothing to do with it as the title of her autobiography (1953).
“I'm the kinda girl who works for Paramount by day, and Fox all night”
Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol
Sextette (1978)
“When you got the personality, you don't need the nudity.”
Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol
Quoted in "For Women, Monologues They Haven't Heard" by Susan Pomerance, Dramaline Publications (1985)
“She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.”
Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol
#832 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne
“One and one is two; two and two is four; and "five will get you ten" if you work it right!”
Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol
Source: My Little Chickadee (1940)