"Between two evils, I always pick the..." - Quote by Mae West

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

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

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

“To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.”

“I have a plan-to go mad.”

“Disappointment can drive us, or it can defeat us.”

“The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.”

“Take sips of this pure wine being poured. Don't mind that you've been given a dirty cup.”

“but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.”