Mae West Quotes

I’ve been things and I've seen places.

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

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

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

Look your best - who said love is blind?

A man's kiss is his signature.

It's hard to find a good man, but it's good to find a hard one.

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

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

When in doubt take a bath

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

I'd like to see Paris before I die.

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

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

Flattery will get you everywhere.

Dating means two things; disillusionment or a racing heart.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Brains are an asset, if you hide them.

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

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

I speak two languages, Body and English.

It takes two to get one in trouble.

The finest woman that ever walked the streets.

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

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

You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.

I've been things and seen places.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

March isn't the only thing that's in like a lion and out like a lamb.

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

Brains are an asset to the woman in love who's smart enough to hide 'em.

Some of the wildest men make the best pets.

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

I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.

Diamonds talk, and I can stand listenin' to 'em often.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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