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Name: Mary Jane West Nicknames: Mae West Birth: August 17, 1893 Death: November 22, 1980 Birthplace: Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City Star Sign: Leo Occupation: actress, screenwriter, sex symbol, playwright |
There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out. - Mae West
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. - Mae West
When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. - Mae West
When women go wrong, men go right after them. - Mae West
The score never interested me, only the game. - Mae West
I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it. - Mae West
Sex is emotion in motion. - Mae West
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain. - Mae West
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere. - Mae West
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art. - Mae West
Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring. - Mae West
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache. - 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
A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love. - Mae West
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up. - Mae West
Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you. - Mae West
A hard man is good to find. - Mae West
It takes two to get one in trouble. - Mae West
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction. - Mae West
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else. - 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
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
A man in the house is worth two in the street. - Mae West
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him. - Mae West
He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West
A man's kiss is his signature. - Mae West
Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided. - Mae West
Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up. - Mae West
An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises. - Mae West
Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else. - Mae West
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. - Mae West
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly. - Mae West
It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean. - Mae West
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of. - Mae West
Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from. - Mae West
Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for. - Mae West
I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked. - Mae West
His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork. - Mae West
I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them. - Mae West
I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you. - Mae West
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men. - Mae West
Look your best - who said love is blind? - Mae West
I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it. - Mae West
I never loved another person the way I loved myself - Mae West
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. - Mae West
I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway. - 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 like restraint, if it doesn't go too far. - Mae West
I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure. - Mae West
I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action. - Mae West
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond. - Mae West
I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported. - Mae West
I speak two languages, Body and English. - Mae West
I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men? - Mae West
I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them. - 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'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing. - Mae West
I'd like to see Paris before I die. Philadelphia will do. - Mae West
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. - Mae West
If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning. - Mae West
I've been things and seen places. - Mae West
I've been in more laps than a napkin. - Mae West
