Mae West Quotes (152 Quotes)


    When women go wrong, men go right after them.

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

    To err is human, but is feels divine.

    I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

    He who hesitates is a damned fool.


    I've been things and seen places.

    I believe in censorship. After all, I made a fortune out of it.

    A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

    Don't come crawlin' to a man for love--he likes to get a run for his money.


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

    Always remember honey. A good motto is Take all you can get and give as little as possible.


    Tira You see, I can't discuss it over the phone. It's got a lot of angles to it. You'd better come up and see me.

    Women are as old as they feel - and men are old when they lose their feelings

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

    Look your best - who said love is blind?

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

    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.

    Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

    Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls, if he has been out on illegitimate business, it's your own fault.

    When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.

    Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The non professional volunteer world is a laboratory for self-realization.

    I'd like to see Paris before I die. Philadelphia will do.

    Marriage is a great institution. No family should be without it.

    Ohhhhh I feel like a million but, I'll take'em one at a time

    I take it out in the open and laugh at it.

    The score never interested me, only the game.

    I've been in more laps than a napkin.

    Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.

    When a girl goes bad--men go right after her.

    Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

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

    I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

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


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

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

    I don't know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man when I see one

    I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?

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

    Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.

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

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

    Tira Oh, Beulah. Beulah Yes, ma'am. Tira Peel me a grape.

    It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.

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

    Tira Whatever you're thinkin' you're wrong. I only like him like a brother. You ain't got nothin' to worry about.... Say listen you. A better dame than you once called me a liar and they had to sew her up in twelve different places. You're lucky I'm a little more refined than I used to be. And if you was as much a lady as I am, you'd get out of here before I get real sore. Alicia You haven't a streak of decency in you. Tira I don't show my good points to strangers. I'll trouble you to scram.

    No gold-digging for me... I take diamonds We may be off the gold standard someday.

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


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