Mae West Quotes

When I’m good, I’m very good. But when I’m bad, I’m better.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

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 generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.

I’m no angel, but I’ve spread my wings a bit.

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

It’s not the men in my life, it’s the life in my men.

When in doubt, take a bath.

I’m single because I was born that way.

I only like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.

A hard man is good to find.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

It’s better to be looked over than overlooked.

I’m a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

I didn’t discover curves; I only uncovered them.

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

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

A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up.

Love thy neighbor — and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

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

Don’t marry a man to reform him – that’s what reform schools are for.

Between two evils, I generally like to pick the one I never tried before.

I’ve been things and seen places.

You don’t find love, love finds you. It has to be wild or nothing.

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

You’re never too old to become younger.

Cultivate your curves – they may be dangerous but they won’t be avoided.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

I’m a woman who was meant to be in pictures.

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

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

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

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

It’s not what I do, but how I do it. It’s not what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

I’m a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

I’m simple. I just complicate things.

I’ve been in more laps than a napkin.

To err is human, but it feels divine.

A woman’s place is in the wrong.

I go to bed with the chickens, and I get up with the cows.

I finally found a man who could satisfy my desires – he was just a plumber.

I’m the kinda girl who’ll kiss your lips when there’s a smile on your face, or maybe just when the smile is in my mind.