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

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

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

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

I never set out to make men a career; it just happened that way.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Well, the end of another busy day. I can't wait till I get back to bed. If that don't work I'll try to sleep.

A girl in the convertible is worth five in the phone book.

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

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

Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises.

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

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

Love is like a booger, you pick and pick at it. Then when you get it you wonder how to get rid of it.

Dating means two things; disillusionment or a racing heart.

Beulah, peel me a grape

Well behaved women do not make history.

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

The score never interested me, only the game.

Come up and see me sometime.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Never mind about the six feet. Let's talk about the seven inches.

Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present.

What's the good of resisting temptation? There'll always be more.

Men are not realists - only women are.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

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

Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.

Pour him out of here!

Goodness had nothing to do with it.

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.

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

I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.

Dress gives one the outward sign from which people in general can, and often do, judge upon the inward state of mind and feelings.

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

Sometimes I don't drink so the next day I can remember having fun.

Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.

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

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

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect.

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

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

You are never too old to become younger!

How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches!

It's not what you can do, but the way you do it that counts.

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

Love is banality to all outsiders.

Why don't you come up and have a little ... scotch and sofa?

No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Some of the wildest men make the best pets.

I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself.

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

Mae West: If I can't a man with a million dollars, I'll a million men with one dollar.

The finest woman that ever walked the streets.

Don't ever make the same mistake twice unless it pays.

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

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

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

I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress?

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

All the raves were just words. You don't want to let words confuse you. Words come cheap.

For a long time I was ashamed of the way I lived. Did I reform, you ask? No. I'm not ashamed anymore.

Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

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.

I've always taken men just as I found 'em, and thank heavens I've been able to find 'em.

Ice is nice at any price.

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

Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart.
Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook.

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

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

If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

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

Love is what you make it and who you make it with.

Money is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone.

All pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on.

The curve is more powerful than the sword.

I always did like a man in uniform. And that one fits you grand. Why don't you come up sometime and see me?

I've been rich and I've been poor, and rich is better.

A hard man is good to find.

Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action

One more drink and I'll be under the host.

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

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

The censors wouldn't even let me sit on a guy's lap, and I've been on more laps than a table-napkin.

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

Reason was nowhere, time was an immovable object nailed high on the wall, except where the world kept shop.

I made myself platinum, but I was born a dirty blonde.

I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction.

Just a little sheep dip. Panacea for all stomach ailments.

I've been in more laps than a napkin.

I believe in the single standard
for men and women.

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

I believe that one day the world will judge the witch hunt against homosexuals just as harshly as it judges the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust.

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

Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!

JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court?
MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it.