Quotes by Mae West

• Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.
• Any time you've got nothing to do and lots of time to do it come on up.
• Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
• Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
• Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
• Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.
• A man in the house is worth two in the street.
• He who hesitates is a damned fool.
• Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
• An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
• All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
• A man's kiss is his signature.
• A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
• A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
• A hard man is good to find.
• A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
• Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
• A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.
• 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.
• The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
• The score never interested me, only the game.
• 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 taxing.
• Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
• When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
• Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
• Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.
• When women go wrong, men go right after them.
• Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
• You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
• Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
• Look your best - who said love is blind?
• 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.
• Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
• One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
• Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
• Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
• It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
• Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
• It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
• Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
• It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.
• It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
• It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
• It takes two to get one in trouble.
• When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
• Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
• I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
• I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.
• Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.
• I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
• I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.
• I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
• She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
• His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
• When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
• I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
• I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
• I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
• I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?
• I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
• I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
• He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
• Sex is emotion in motion.
• Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
• Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
• 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.
• If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
• I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
• I've been in more laps than a napkin.
• I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
• I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
• I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
• I'd like to see Paris before I die. Philadelphia will do.
• I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
• I speak two languages, Body and English.
• I've been things and seen places.
• You live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
• Don't cry over spilled milk, at least it wasn't champagne.
• Don't cry over spilt milk, it could have been gin!
• Confidence is the goose that lays the golden eggs—feed it well, but don’t let it be the only thing on your plate.
• Energy is contagious; you either uplift secluded minds or drain vibrant hearts.
• Happiness is the art of never holding in your thoughts anything but the joy of the moment.
• Success doesn't leave crumbs for everyone; you need to bake your own bread!