Mae West Quotes

"It`s better to be looked over, than overlooked."

"A hard man is good to find."

"When women go wrong, men go right after them!"

"When I`m good, I`m very good. But when I`m bad, I`m better."

"Marriage is a great institution. I`m not ready for an institution."

"It`s not the man in your life that counts. It`s the life in your man."

"Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?"

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

"Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere else".

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

"Sex is an emotion in motion."

"To err is human, but it feels divine."

"Few men know how to kiss well. Fortunately, I`ve always had time to teach them."

"I always save one boyfriend for a rainy day...and another in case it doesn`t rain."

"Why don`t you come sometime and see me? I`m home every evening...Come up, and I`ll tell your fortune."

"I freely chose the kind of life I led because I was convinced that a woman has as much right as a man to live the way she does if she does no actual harm to society."

"The man I don`t like doesn`t exist."

"I generally avoid temptation unless I can`t resist it."

"Men are easy to get but hard to keep."

It`s hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

I wrote the story myself. It`s all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.

I`m no model lady. A model`s just an imitation of the real thing.

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

I only like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.

I do all my writing in bed; everybody knows I do my best work there.

When caught between two evils I generally pick the one I`ve never tried before.

Don`t marry a man to reform him that`s what reform schools are for.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

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.

You`re never too old to become younger.

Men are my life, diamonds are my career!

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

I`ve seen Mae West without a stitch and she`s all woman. No hermaphrodite could have bosoms... well, like two large melons. - Edith Head, debunking the rumor that Mae was actually a man

It ain`t sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don`t break any.

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

I`m not good and tired, just tired.

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

I wrote the story myself. It`s about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

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 givin` them too much of me.

You`re never too old to become younger

It takes two to get one in trouble.

Sex is an emotion in motion

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

Keep a diary, and someday it`ll keep you.

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

I don`t like myself, I`m crazy about myself

The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

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

To err is human - but it feels divine

I generally avoid temptation unless I can`t resist it

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.