Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.

No man who drank or smoked could ever come nearer to me than the telephone. I'd say, I won't let you - you nicotine-soaked, beer-besmeared, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devil - talk to me face to face.

[When asked her occupation:] Destroyer of the works of the Devil by the direct order of God.

[To a priest who smoked:] What a shame for a man to dress like a saint and smell like a devil!

Faithful to the cause of Prohibition - She hath done what she could

It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.

I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in God's clean air.

God is a politician; so is the devil.

Eva: I don't want any tea.
Lil: Don’t make me have it on my own.

I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.

He runs like a camel. A really pissed off camel.

It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!

Making the simple complex doesn't take ingenuity. Making the complex simple, now, that's ingenuity!

In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life.

My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'

Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.

Whatever I thought right, to others seemed wrong; what I held to be bad, others approved of.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.