Mae West Quotes

“Money is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone.”

“I know so much about men because I went to night school.”

“You gotta get up early in the morning to catch a fox and stay up late at night to get a mink.”

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

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

“Never ask a man where he has been.”

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

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

“If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.”

“Reason was nowhere, time was an immovable object nailed high on the wall, except where the world kept shop.”

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

“Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart. Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook.”

“Love is like a booger, you pick and pick at it. Then when you get it you wonder how to get rid of it.”

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

“Well behaved women do not make history.”

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

“Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.”

“Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.”

“It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.”

“If you put your foot in it, be sure it's your best foot.”

“I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.”

“I'm a good woman for a bad man.”

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

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

“... love is banality to all outsiders.”