Mae West Quotes, Thoughts and images

Men are like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all over them for years.

Women are like roads. The more curves they have, the more dangerous they are.

Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.

I consider sex a misdemeanour, the more I miss, de meaner I get.

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

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

Well behaved women do not make history.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

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

The best way to behave is to misbehave.

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

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

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

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

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

Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

Love is like a booger, you pick and pick at it. Then when you get it you wonder how to get rid of it.

Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.

When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.

Never mind about the six feet. Let's talk about the seven inches.

A hard man is good to find.

For a long time, I was ashamed of the way I lived. Did I reform, you ask? No. I'm not ashamed anymore.

Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action.

You are never too old to become younger!

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court? MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

I like my clothes tight enough to show I'm a woman, but loose enough to show I'm a lady.

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

To err is human, but it feels divine.

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

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

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

I don't like myself, I'm crazy about myself.

Sex is emotion in motion.

No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.