Mae West Quotes

It's not what you say, but how you say it!

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

I believe in the single standard -- for men and women.

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

what's life good fer anyhow? The minute you crawl into the world for no good reason of yer own, it's got you licked four ways from the ace.

men are not realists - only women are.

Pour him out of here!

I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary.

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

The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood ... Life elsewhere was real and slippery and struggled in the arms like a big fish dying in air.

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

Hollywood was like a mouse being followed by a cat called television.

Men are my life, diamonds are my career.

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

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

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

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

Goodness had nothing to do with it.

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

To err is human - but it feels divine.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

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

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out

They say love is blind . . . and marriage is an insritution. Well I'm nor ready for an instirurion for rhe blind just yet.

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

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

He who hesitates is last.

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

When women go wrong men go right after them.

Dennis Thatcher husband of Margaret Thatcher when asked who wore the pants in his house said "I do and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men domestic and foreign.

Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.

I used to be snow-white . . . but I drifted.

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

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

Between two evils I always picked the one I never tried before.

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

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

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

Too much of a good thing can be taxing.