Mae West słynne cytaty
„Czy masz rewolwer w kieszeni, czy tylko tak się cieszysz na mój widok?”
Is that a gun in your poket, or are you just glad to see me? (ang.)
Źródło: film My Little Chickadee, 1940.
„Jeden mężczyzna w domu jest warty dwóch mężczyzn na ulicy.”
Źródło: Piękność lat dziewięćdziesiątych, 1934
Mae West cytaty
„Nie chodzę, jeśli mogę siedzieć, i nie siedzę, jeśli mogę się położyć.”
Źródło: Paul Johnson, Bohaterowie, tłum. Anna i Jacek Maziarscy, Świat Książki, Warszawa, 2009, s. 247.
When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I’ve never tried before.
Źródło: Cecily von Ziegesar, wstęp do VIII tomu Plotkary.
„Kiedy jestem dobra, jestem bardzo dobra, ale kiedy jestem zła, to jestem jeszcze lepsza.”
When I’m good, I’m very good, but when I’m bad, I’m better. (ang.)
przypisywane.
„Do młodego kowboja: Ile masz wzrostu? – Sześć stóp i siedem cali!”
Cóż dajmy spokój tym sześciu stopom. Bardziej interesuje mnie te siedem cali.
Mae West: Cytaty po angielsku
“I've been in more laps than a napkin.”
#685 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne
“Between two evils, I generally like to pick the one I never tried before.”
Klondike Annie (1936) Sometimes quoted as: "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."'
“When you got the personality, you don't need the nudity.”
Quoted in "For Women, Monologues They Haven't Heard" by Susan Pomerance, Dramaline Publications (1985)
“When women go wrong, men go right after them.”
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
“I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.”
Person-to-Person interview (CBS) with Charles Collingwood, September 1959 http://books.google.com/books?id=21R_KPMzH2EC&q="I've+always+had+a+weakness+for+foreign+affairs"&pg=PA82#v=onepage
“Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.”
#684 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne
“I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”
Interview http://books.google.com/books?id=jU8EAAAAMBAJ&q=%22I+used+to+be+Snow+White+but+I+drifted%22&pg=PA64-IA1#v=onepage in Life magazine (18 April 1969)
“One and one is two; two and two is four; and "five will get you ten" if you work it right!”
Źródło: My Little Chickadee (1940)
“She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.”
#832 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne
“Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.”
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).
“Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?”
Sextette (1978)
Źródło: [Quote Investigator: Exploring the Origin of Quotes, http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/08/20/glad-to-see/]
Źródło: [The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations, https://books.google.com/books?id=whg05Z4Nwo0C&pg=PA625]
“I feel like a million tonight. But one at a time.”
Myra Breckinridge (1970)
“Why don't you come up sometime and see me? … Come on up, I'll tell your fortune.”
She Done Him Wrong (1933); this statement has become widely misquoted with the paraphrase: "Why don't you come up and see me sometime?"
“Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.”
#149 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne
“A man in the house is worth two in the street.”
Belle of the Nineties (1934)
