“Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?”

—  Mae West

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]

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American actress and sex symbol 1893–1980

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