“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
“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”
― Mae West
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West
“I always say, keep a diary and someday it’ll keep you.”
― Mae West
“Cultivate your curves – they may be dangerous but they won’t be avoided.”
― Mae West
“I’m no model lady. A model’s just an imitation of the real thing.”
― Mae West
“All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.”
― Mae West
“Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I’m tired.”
― 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
“When I’m good I’m very, very good, but when I’m bad, I’m better.”
― Mae West
“Love thy neighbor – and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.”
― Mae West
“A man’s kiss is his signature.”
― Mae West
“I didn’t discover curves; I only uncovered them.”
― Mae West
“I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.”
― Mae West
“Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.”
― Mae West
“It’s not the men in my life that count, it’s the life in my men.”
― Mae West
“He’s the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.”
― Mae West
“Personality is the most important thing to an actress’s success.”
― Mae West
“I’ll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.”
― Mae West
“Save a boyfriend for a rainy day – and another, in case it doesn’t rain.”
― Mae West
“Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.”
― Mae West
“An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.”
― Mae West
“Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.”
― Mae West
“When I’m good, I’m very good. But when I’m bad I’m better.”
― Mae West
“Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.”
― Mae West
“Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.”
― 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
“I’m a woman of very few words, but lots of action.”
― Mae West
“It’s hard to be funny when you have to be clean.”
― Mae West
“Don’t keep a man guessing too long – he’s sure to find the answer somewhere else.”
― Mae West
“She’s the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.”
― Mae West
“A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.”
― Mae West
“Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can’t figure out what from.”
― Mae West
“Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.”
― Mae West
“When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.”
― Mae West
“His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.”
― Mae West
“To err is human, but it feels divine.”
― Mae West
“Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.”
― Mae West
“I’ve been in more laps than a napkin.”
― Mae West
“If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.”
― Mae West
“I believe that it’s better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.”
― Mae West
“I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.”
― Mae West
“I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”
― Mae West
“It ain’t no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don’t break any.”
― Mae West
“I never loved another person the way I loved myself.”
― Mae West
“Keep a diary, and someday it’ll keep you.”
― Mae West
“Give a man a free hand and he’ll run it all over you.”
― Mae West
“Love isn’t an emotion or an instinct – it’s an art.”
― Mae West
“Personally, I like two types of men – domestic and foreign.”
― Mae West
“A hard man is good to find.”
― Mae West
“The score never interested me, only the game.”
― Mae West
“Whenever I’m caught between two evils, I take the one I’ve never tried.”
― Mae West
“A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up.”
― Mae West
“It is better to be looked over than overlooked.”
― Mae West
“I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.”
― Mae West
“I speak two languages, Body and English.”
― Mae West
“I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.”
― Mae West
“I see you’re a man with ideals. I better be going before you’ve still got them.”
― Mae West
“He who hesitates is a damned fool.”
― Mae West
“I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.”
― Mae West
“I like restraint, if it doesn’t go too far.”
― Mae West
“Too much of a good thing can be taxing.”
― Mae West
“I only have ‘yes’ men around me. Who needs ‘no’ men?”
― Mae West
“When women go wrong, men go right after them.”
― 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
“The best way to hold a man is in your arms.”
― Mae West
“I’ve been things and seen places.”
― Mae West
“A woman in love can’t be reasonable – or she probably wouldn’t be in love.”
― Mae West
“I like a man who’s good, but not too good – for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.”
― Mae West
“A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that’s subtraction.”
― Mae West
“Sex is emotion in motion.”
― Mae West
“Don’t marry a man to reform him – that’s what reform schools are for.”
― Mae West
“It takes two to get one in trouble.”
― Mae West
“Look your best – who said love is blind?”
― Mae West
“Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.”
― Mae West
“Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they’re doing and saying in films right now just shouldn’t be allowed. There’s no dignity anymore and I think that’s very important.”
― Mae West
“Any time you got nothing to do – and lots of time to do it – come on up.”
― Mae West
“A man in the house is worth two in the street.”
― Mae West
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