Words matter. These are the best Mae West Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It’s not the men in my life that count, it’s the life in my men.
Love isn’t an emotion or an instinct – it’s an art.
I didn’t discover curves; I only uncovered them.
Cultivate your curves – they may be dangerous but they won’t be avoided.
I’m no model lady. A model’s just an imitation of the real thing.
Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can’t figure out what from.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
I’ll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
I speak two languages, Body and English.
Keep a diary, and someday it’ll keep you.
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.
An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day – and another, in case it doesn’t rain.
I only have ‘yes’ men around me. Who needs ‘no’ men?
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
Give a man a free hand and he’ll run it all over you.
I always say, keep a diary and someday it’ll keep you.
Give a man a free hand and he’ll run it all over you.
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
She’s the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
He’s the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
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.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
Love thy neighbor – and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
I’ve been things and seen places.
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.
It takes two to get one in trouble.
I see you’re a man with ideals. I better be going before you’ve still got them.
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that’s subtraction.
I believe that it’s better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.
Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.
The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
Look your best – who said love is blind?
To err is human, but it feels divine.
A man’s kiss is his signature.
A woman in love can’t be reasonable – or she probably wouldn’t be in love.
I’ve been in more laps than a napkin.
Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I’m tired.
It’s not what I do, but the way I do it. It’s not what I say, but the way I say it.
Too much of a good thing can be taxing.
When I’m good, I’m very good. But when I’m bad I’m better.
Whenever I’m caught between two evils, I take the one I’ve never tried.
It’s hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
