Mae West Quotes

Mae West: 17 Aug 1893 to 22 Nov 1980

A hard man is good to find.

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

A man's kiss is his signature.

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

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

I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

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

It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.

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

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

Sex is emotion in motion.

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

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

To err is human, but it feels divine.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
Mae West

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

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