Mae West Lips

Famous quotes containing the words mae west, west and/or lips:

    “Novelties and notions?” What kind of notions you got?
    Mae West, U.S. screenwriter, W.C. Fields, and Edward Cline. Flower Belle Lee (Mae West)

    It is said that a carpenter building a summer hotel here ... declared that one very clear day he picked out a ship coming into Portland Harbor and could distinctly see that its cargo was West Indian rum. A county historian avers that it was probably an optical delusion, the result of looking so often through a glass in common use in those days.
    —For the State of New Hampshire, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    No longer could I doubt him true
    All other men may use deceit;
    He always said my eyes were blue,
    And often swore my lips were sweet.
    Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)