Mae West Quotes

A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

Don't cry for a man who's left you—the next one may fall for your smile.

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

Sex is emotion in motion.

I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.

You are never too old to become younger!

Look your best - who said love is blind?

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

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

His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.

A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.

To err is human, but it feels divine.

I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.

The curve is more powerful than the sword.

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

I've been things and I've seen places.

The score never interested me, only the game.

Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.

I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

A man's kiss is his signature.

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

Men are like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all over them for years.

I've been in more laps than a napkin.

The best way to behave is to misbehave.

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.

It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.

A hard man is good to find.

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can't ever take that away from you.

Men are all alike - except the one you've met who's different.

You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.

A man in the house is worth two in the street.

I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

I speak two languages, Body and English.

I don't like myself, I'm crazy about myself.

Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.

Men are easy to get but hard to keep.

Kiss and make up-but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.

It takes two to get one in trouble.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.

Some women pick men to marry—and others pick them to pieces.

The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.

Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.

When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.

Flattery will get you everywhere.

I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.