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Mae West Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

He who hesitates is a damned fool. — Mae West

I'd like to see Paris before I die. — Mae West

It's easy to get married, but hard to stay that way. — Mae West

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

I consider sex a misdemeanor, the more I miss, de meaner I get. — Mae West

When women go wrong, men go right after them. — Mae West

In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood. — Mae West

It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men. — Mae West

You gotta get up early in the morning to catch a fox and stay up late at night to get a mink. — Mae West

Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises. — Mae West

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

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

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

Beulah, peel me a grape — Mae West

He's the kind of man who picks his friends - to pieces. — Mae West

Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you. — Mae West

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

I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them. — Mae West

Come up and see me sometime. — Mae West

Sometimes it seems to me I've known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints. — Mae West

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

We're intellectual opposites. Well, I'm intellectual and you're opposite. — Mae West

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises. — Mae West

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

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

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

Pour him out of here! — Mae West

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

Give a man free hands, and you'll know where to find them. — Mae West

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

I speak two languages, Body and English. — Mae West

Don't let a man put anything over on you except an umbrella. — Mae West

Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you — Mae West

I know so much about men because I went to night school. — Mae West

Sex is an emotion in motion. — Mae West

It takes two to get one in trouble. — Mae West

Ice is nice at any price. — Mae West

What Mae West said about sex is true about taxes. All tax cuts are good tax cuts; even bad tax cuts are good tax cuts. — Grover Norquist

The curve is more powerful than the sword. — Mae West

No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday. — Mae West

Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings. — Mae West

Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost. — Mae West

When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me? — Mae West

A woman in love can't be reasonable
or she probably wouldn't be in love. — Mae West

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

When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West. — Charlotte Church

I've been rich and I've been poor, and rich is better. — Mae West

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

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

A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay. — Mae West

Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers. — Mae West

A man in the house is worth two on the street. — Mae West

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

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it. — Mae West

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. — Mae West

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

Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand. — Mae West

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

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

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

I like a man what takes his time. — Mae West

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache. — Mae West

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

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

Look at you, locked and loaded, like Mae West of the Motor City. — Ruta Sepetys

There are three fashion periods: the past, the present and Mae West. — Edith Head

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

Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!' 'Goodness had nothing to do with it'. — Mae West

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

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

I never loved another person the way I loved myself. — Mae West

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

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

Live close, visit often. — Mae West

Love is banality to all outsiders. — Mae West

I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs. — Mae West

Some of the wildest men make the best pets. — Mae West

Sex is emotion in motion. — Mae West

Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring. — Mae West

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

I've been things and I've seen places. — Mae West

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

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. — Mae West

Love is what you make it and who you make it with. — Mae West

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

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

Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign. — Mae West

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

A hard man is good to find. — Mae West

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

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful! — Mae West

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. — Mae West

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

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

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

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. — Mae West

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