Mae West Quotes

“I've always taken men just as I found 'em, and thank heavens I've been able to find 'em.”

“Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.”

“Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.”

“Flattery will get you everywhere.”

“It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.”

“Well behaved women do not make history.”

“I freely chose the kind of life I led because I was convinced that a woman has as much right as a man to live the way she does if she does no actual harm to society.”

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

“Pour him out of here!”

“A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.”

“Positive thoughts generate positive feelings and attract positive life experiences. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

“Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.”

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

“[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more.”

“Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present”

“You are never too old to become younger!”

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

“Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you”

“Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.”

“The score never interested me, only the game.”

“Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.”

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

“Always remember honey. A good motto is: Take all you can get and give as little as possible.”

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

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

“The finest woman that ever walked the streets.”

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

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

“She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.”

“No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.”

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

“Don't forget honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em.”

“I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”

“I never needed Panavision and stereophonic sound to woo the world. I did it in black and white on a screen the size of a postage stamp. Honey, that's talent.”

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

“The best way to hold a man is in your arms.”

“Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.”

“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.”

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

“We're intellectual opposites. Well, I'm intellectual and you're opposite.”

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

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

“Too much of a good thing can be taxing.”

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

“Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.”

“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.”

“A man in the house is worth two in the street.”

“Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.”

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