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I don't like myself, I'm crazy about myself. -- Mae West
Men are not realists - only women are. -- Mae West
To her British lover about to climb in bed with 80-something Mae: She said that she hoped soon to be able to say what Paul Revere said - 'The British are coming'. This was the last one-liner Mae ever uttered on film. -- 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
I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it. -- Mae West
I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit. -- Mae West
A man in the house is worth two on the street. -- Mae West
Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart.
Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook. -- Mae West
Sex is emotion in motion. -- Mae West
Well, the end of another busy day. I can't wait till I get back to bed. If that don't work I'll try to sleep. -- Mae West
Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action -- Mae West
A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West
It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West
Tira begins to sing "I'm No Angel" to him as the screen fades: Baby, I can warm you with this love of mine. I'm No Angel. Aw, let me feel my fingers running through your hair, I can give you kisses ... -- Mae West
Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring. -- Mae West
All the raves were just words. You don't want to let words confuse you. Words come cheap. -- 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
Mae West: If I can't a man with a million dollars, I'll a million men with one dollar. -- Mae West
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him. -- Mae West
My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me. -- Mae West
A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer. -- Mae West
I believe that one day the world will judge the witch hunt against homosexuals just as harshly as it judges the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust. -- Mae West
The censors wouldn't even let me sit on a guy's lap, and I've been on more laps than a table-napkin. -- Mae West
I never set out to make men a career; it just happened that way. -- Mae West
A girl in the convertible is worth five in the phone book. -- Mae West
When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West
It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect. -- Mae West
His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork. -- Mae West
I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself. -- Mae West
I made myself platinum, but I was born a dirty blonde. -- Mae West
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. -- Mae West
I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action. -- Mae West
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office. -- Mae West
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired. -- Mae West
Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it. -- Mae West
I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed. -- Mae West
Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying. -- Mae West
Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home) -- Mae West
A good man is hard to find
but you'll mostly find him asleep. -- Mae West
Dating means two things; disillusionment or a racing heart. -- Mae West
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
I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction. -- Mae West
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. -- Mae West
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. -- Mae West
The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it. -- Mae West
Don't come crawlin' to a man for love-he likes to get a run for his money. -- Mae West
Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself. -- Mae West
A man's kiss is his signature. -- Mae West
I've been things and seen places. -- Mae West
It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean. -- Mae West
He who hesitates is a damned fool. -- Mae West
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. -- Mae West
I've always taken men just as I found 'em, and thank heavens I've been able to find 'em. -- Mae West
I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress? -- Mae West
Always remember honey. A good motto is: Take all you can get and give as little as possible. -- Mae West
Don't cry for a man who's left you
the next one may fall for your smile. -- Mae West
No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most. -- Mae West
Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can't ever take that away from you. -- Mae West
You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest. -- Mae West
[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. -- Mae West
What's the good of resisting temptation? There'll always be more. -- Mae West
Sometimes it seems to me I've known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints. -- Mae West
For a long time I was ashamed of the way I lived. Did I reform, you ask? No. I'm not ashamed anymore. -- Mae West
I'm the kinda girl who works for Paramount by day, and Fox all night -- Mae West
Men? Sure, I've known lots of them. But I never found one I liked well enough to marry. Besides, I've always been busy with my work. Marriage is a career in itself and to make a success of it you've got to keep working at it. So until I can give the. -- Mae West
Brains are an asset, if you hide them. -- Mae West
An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises. -- Mae West
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond. -- 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've always had a weakness for foreign affairs. -- Mae West
Well behaved women do not make history. -- Mae West
March isn't the only thing that's in like a lion and out like a lamb. -- Mae West
I consider sex a misdemeanor, the more I miss, de meaner I get. -- Mae West
I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction. -- Mae West
Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls, if he has been out on illegitimate business, it's your own fault. -- Mae West
I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing. -- Mae West
The finest woman that ever walked the streets. -- Mae West
Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes. -- Mae West
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!' 'Goodness had nothing to do with it'. -- Mae West
Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child. -- Mae West
I never loved another person the way I loved myself. -- Mae West
I saw what a mess a lot of people could make of their lives when they're smitten. Some of them go temporarily insane. They find a person who they think holds the key to their happiness-the only key to their happiness ... My work has always been my greatest happiness -- Mae West
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men. -- Mae West
Men are my life, diamonds are my career. -- Mae West
It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men. -- Mae West
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. -- Mae West
The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood ... Life elsewhere was real and slippery and struggled in the arms like a big fish dying in air. -- Mae West
Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love
that's not so bad either. -- Mae West
I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure. -- Mae West
What's life good fer anyhow? The minute you crawl into the world for no good reason of yer own, it's got you licked four ways from the ace. -- Mae West
I like my clothes tight enough to show I'm a woman, but loose enough to show I'm a lady. -- Mae West
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else. -- Mae West
Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for. -- Mae West
Don't let a man put anything over on you except an umbrella. -- Mae West
How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches! -- Mae West
No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday. -- Mae West
Love is like a booger, you pick and pick at it. Then when you get it you wonder how to get rid of it. -- Mae West
Money is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone. -- Mae West
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -- Mae West
Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises. -- Mae West
Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening ... Come up. I'll tell your fortune ... Ah, you can be had. -- Mae West
Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided. -- Mae West
Pour him out of here! -- 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
Hollywood was like a mouse being followed by a cat called television. -- Mae West
The best way to hold a man is in your arms. -- Mae West
Brains are an asset to the woman in love who's smart enough to hide 'em. -- Mae West
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. -- Mae West
The score never interested me, only the game. -- Mae West
Diamonds talk, and I can stand listenin' to 'em often. -- Mae West
You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles. -- Mae West
Women want certain things in marriage
the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury. -- Mae West
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West
Don't ever make the same mistake twice unless it pays. -- Mae West
All pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on. -- Mae West
He's the kind of man who picks his friends - to pieces. -- Mae West
His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork. -- Mae West
To err is human - but it feels divine. -- Mae West
I always did like a man in uniform. And that one fits you grand. Why don't you come up sometime and see me? -- Mae West
I'd like to see Paris before I die. -- Mae West
I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them. -- Mae West
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. -- Mae West
Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up. -- Mae West
Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost. -- Mae West
A hard man is good to find. -- Mae West
It's hard to find a good man, but it's good to find a hard one. -- Mae West
A man in love is like a clipped coupon - it's time to cash in. -- Mae West
Kiss and make up-but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss. -- Mae West
Never mind about the six feet. Let's talk about the seven inches. -- Mae West
Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt. -- Mae West
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. -- Mae West
When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity. -- Mae West
Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else -- Mae West
A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay. -- Mae West
Some women pick men to marry
and others pick them to pieces. -- Mae West
I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without. -- Mae West
Don't forget honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em. -- Mae West
Come up and see me sometime. -- Mae West
It's easy to get married, but hard to stay that way. -- Mae West
Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers. -- Mae West
Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from. -- Mae West
I'm single because I was born that way. -- Mae West
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. -- Mae West
If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right! -- Mae West
I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary. -- Mae West
I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway. -- Mae West
Love is banality to all outsiders. -- Mae West
I've been in more laps than a napkin. -- Mae West
Too much of a good thing can be taxing. -- Mae West
Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you. -- Mae West
I like a man what takes his time. -- Mae West
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain. -- Mae West
Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present. -- Mae West
Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one. -- Mae West
Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you. -- Mae West
Live close, visit often. -- Mae West
Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin! -- Mae West
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful! -- Mae West
Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality! -- Mae West
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often. -- Mae West
Why don't you come up and have a little ... scotch and sofa? -- Mae West
Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up. -- Mae West
There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out. -- Mae West
Reason was nowhere, time was an immovable object nailed high on the wall, except where the world kept shop. -- Mae West
If you put your foot in it, be sure it's your best foot. -- Mae West
Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you -- Mae West
I speak two languages, Body and English. -- Mae West
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up. -- Mae West
It takes two to get one in trouble. -- Mae West
We're intellectual opposites. Well, I'm intellectual and you're opposite. -- Mae West
In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood. -- Mae West
If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning. -- Mae West
Men are like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all over
them for years. -- Mae West
I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported. -- Mae West
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of. -- Mae West
I know so much about men because I went to night school. -- Mae West
When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. -- Mae West
Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign. -- Mae West
Some of the wildest men make the best pets. -- Mae West
Keep a diary and one day it'll keep you. -- Mae West
I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them. -- Mae West
Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them. -- Mae West
When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me? -- Mae West
Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring. -- Mae West
Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini ... -- Mae West
I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them. -- Mae West
When in doubt, take a bath... -- Mae West
Look your best - who said love is blind? -- Mae West
JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court?
MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it. -- Mae West
I started out as Snow White, but then I drifted. -- Mae West
You may think you're in love when the passions of sex get hold of you, but if you didn't love the man before, you won't love him after. Like him, maybe, but not love him. -- Mae West
Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? -- Mae West
You are never too old to become younger! -- Mae West
Love thy neighbor
and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier. -- Mae West
Sex is an emotion in motion. -- Mae West
Ice is nice at any price. -- Mae West
Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said "I do, and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign. -- Mae West
A woman in love can't be reasonable
or she probably wouldn't be in love. -- Mae West
Dress gives one the outward sign from which people in general can, and often do, judge upon the inward state of mind and feelings. -- Mae West
Goodness had nothing to do with it. -- Mae West
I believe in the single standard
for men and women. -- Mae West
The curve is more powerful than the sword. -- Mae West
Love is the only industry which can't operate on a five-day week. -- Mae West
Sometimes I don't drink so the next day I can remember having fun. -- Mae West
I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it. -- Mae West
The best way to behave is to misbehave. -- Mae West
I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far. -- Mae West
One more drink and I'll be under the host. -- Mae West
Curve: The loveliest distance between two points. -- Mae West
I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men? -- Mae West
Give a man free hands, and you'll know where to find them. -- Mae West
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art. -- Mae West
It's not what you can do, but the way you do it that counts. -- 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
You gotta get up early in the morning to catch a fox and stay up late at night to get a mink. -- Mae West
Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success. -- Mae West
Beulah, peel me a grape -- Mae West
Men are all alike - except the one you've met who's different. -- Mae West
Just a little sheep dip. Panacea for all stomach ailments. -- Mae West
It's not what you say, but how you say it! -- Mae West
When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. -- Mae West
When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin. -- 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
Poor Mary Ann! She gave the guy an inch and now he thinks he's a ruler. -- Mae West
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction. -- Mae West
Love is what you make it and who you make it with. -- Mae West
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache. -- Mae West
Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand. -- Mae West
Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings. -- Mae West
I've been things and I've seen places. -- Mae West
I've been rich and I've been poor, and rich is better. -- Mae West
Never ask a man where he has been. -- Mae West
Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins. -- Mae West
I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked. -- Mae West