Mae West foi uma atriz norte-americana.
“Garotas boas vão para o céu, as más vão para todo lugar”
Good girls go to heaven, but bad girls go everywhere
citado em "African children: their faces and their thoughts" - página 28, Thomas S. Gale - Independent Communications Associates Ltd., 1998, ISBN 9966998306, 9789966998309 - 120 páginas
“Errar é humano, mas faz você se sentir divino”
To err is human. But it feels divine.
citado em "Cash in!: funding and promoting the arts : a compendium of imaginative concepts, tested ideas and case histories of programs and promotions that make money" - página 216, Alvin H. Reiss - Theatre Communications Group, 1986, ISBN 0930452593, 9780930452599 - 230 páginas
“O casamento é uma grande instituição, mas eu não estou preparada para as instituições.”
citado em "O Livro de Ouro do Sexo" - Página 38, Regina Navarro Lins, Flario Braga, Pocket Ouro, 2005, ISBN 8500016337, 9788500016332- 528 páginas
“Quando sou boa, sou ótima. Quando sou má, sou melhor ainda!”
MAE WEST em "Santa não Sou" (1933) conforme citado em "As melhores frases do cinema" - Página 17, Mariza Gualano, Editora Garamond, 2002, ISBN 8576170167, 9788576170167 - 104 páginas
“Você nunca será muito velho para ficar mais novo”
You're never too old to become younger.
citado em "Make eyes with Madeleine Mono: every woman's step-by-step guide to ..." - página 133, Madeleine Mono - Harper & Row, 1981, ISBN 0690019459, 9780690019452 - 143 páginas
“Subtração aritmética é deixar com 2 dólares um homem que tem uma nota de 100.”
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars. That's subtraction.
citado em "The book of Hollywood quotes" - página 96, Gary Herman - Omnibus Press, 1979, ISBN 0825639433, 9780825639432 - 128 páginas
“Quando as mulheres erram, os homens vão atrás”
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
no filme "She Done Him Wrong" (1933), conforme citado em imdb http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024548/quotes
“Entre dois males, escolho sempre aquele que nunca experimentei”
Between two evils I always pick the one I never tried
no filme "Klondike Annie" (1936), conforme citado em "From Aristotelian to Reaganomics: a dictionary of eponyms with biographies in the social sciences" - Página 387, R. C. S. Trahair - Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994, ISBN 0313279616, 9780313279614 - 721 páginas
“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)
“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!”
Fonte: 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)
Fonte: [Quote Investigator: Exploring the Origin of Quotes, http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/08/20/glad-to-see/]
Fonte: [The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations, https://books.google.com/books?id=whg05Z4Nwo0C&pg=PA625]
“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
