Mae West Quotes

You are never too old to become younger!

Beulah, peel me a grape

I like my clothes tight enough to show I'm a woman, but loose enough to show I'm a lady.

I'm single because I was born that way.

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

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

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

Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.

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

A hard man is good to find.

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

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

Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have never loved a man as much as I have loved myself

Don't forget honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em.

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

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

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

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

Come up and see me sometime.

The score never interested me, only the game.

[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more.

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

Too many girls follow the line of least resistance, but a good line is hard to resist.

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

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

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

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

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

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.

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?

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

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.

A good man is hard to find -- but you'll mostly find him asleep.

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

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

Well behaved women do not make history.

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

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

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

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

I'm a good woman for a bad man.