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Money is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone. By Mae West

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful! By Mae West

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. By Mae West

To err is human - but it feels divine. By Mae West

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

Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up. By Mae West

Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers. By Mae West

I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it. By Mae West

Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring. By Mae West

Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt. By Mae West

Don't ever make the same mistake twice unless it pays. By 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. By Mae West

One more drink and I'll be under the host. By Mae West

I don't like myself, I'm crazy about myself. By Mae West

Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you By Mae West

Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action By Mae West

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

You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles. By Mae West

Give a man free hands, and you'll know where to find them. By Mae West

Kiss and make up-but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss. By Mae West

I started out as Snow White, but then I drifted. By Mae West

March isn't the only thing that's in like a lion and out like a lamb. By Mae West

Men are like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all overthem for years. By Mae West

Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality! By Mae West

It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect. By 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. By 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. By Mae West

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. By Mae West

In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood. By Mae West

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

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

I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them. By 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. By Mae West

The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it. By Mae West

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

I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs. By 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. By Mae West

His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork. By Mae West

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

Mae West: If I can't a man with a million dollars, I'll a million men with one dollar. By Mae West

I never loved another person the way I loved myself. By Mae West

Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin! By 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. By Mae West

All the raves were just words. You don't want to let words confuse you. Words come cheap. By 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? By Mae West

Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost. By Mae West

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean. By Mae West

Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it. By 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. By Mae West

Poor Mary Ann! She gave the guy an inch and now he thinks he's a ruler. By Mae West

I'm the kinda girl who works for Paramount by day, and Fox all night By Mae West

Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises. By 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. By Mae West

Hollywood was like a mouse being followed by a cat called television. By Mae West

Love is banality to all outsiders. By 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. By Mae West

When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me? By Mae West

Don't cry for a man who's left youthe next one may fall for your smile. By Mae West

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. By Mae West

When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin. By Mae West

He's the kind of man who picks his friends - to pieces. By Mae West

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes. By Mae West

Don't forget honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em. By Mae West

It's easy to get married, but hard to stay that way. By Mae West

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing. By Mae West

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

It is better to be looked over than overlooked. By Mae West

A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay. By Mae West

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

A man in love is like a clipped coupon - it's time to cash in. By Mae West

Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up. By Mae West

I never set out to make men a career; it just happened that way. By Mae West

Brains are an asset to the woman in love who's smart enough to hide 'em. By Mae West

Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini ... By Mae West

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

When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. By Mae West

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one. By Mae West

It's not what you say, but how you say it! By Mae West

I believe in the single standard for men and women. By Mae West

Never ask a man where he has been. By Mae West

Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without lovethat's not so bad either. By Mae West

Reason was nowhere, time was an immovable object nailed high on the wall, except where the world kept shop. By Mae West

The best way to hold a man is in your arms. By Mae West

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for. By Mae West

Why don't you come up and have a little ... scotch and sofa? By 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. By Mae West

I'm single because I was born that way. By Mae West

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

Dating means two things; disillusionment or a racing heart. By Mae West

Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring. By Mae West

I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without. By Mae West

A good man is hard to find but you'll mostly find him asleep. By Mae West

A man in the house is worth two on the street. By Mae West

A girl in the convertible is worth five in the phone book. By 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. By Mae West

Don't come crawlin' to a man for love-he likes to get a run for his money. By 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. By Mae West

Come up and see me sometime. By Mae West

It takes two to get one in trouble. By Mae West

I like a man what takes his time. By Mae West

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain. By Mae West

Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one. By Mae West

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it. By 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! By Mae West

Just a little sheep dip. Panacea for all stomach ailments. By Mae West

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

When women go wrong, men go right after them. By Mae West

Too much of a good thing can be taxing. By Mae West

Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them. By Mae West

Some of the wildest men make the best pets. By Mae West

I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked. By Mae West

I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them. By Mae West

Diamonds talk, and I can stand listenin' to 'em often. By Mae West

I made myself platinum, but I was born a dirty blonde. By 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. By Mae West

I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far. By Mae West

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

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. By Mae West

A man in the house is worth two in the street. By Mae West

If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning. By Mae West

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

I know so much about men because I went to night school. By 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. By Mae West

Sex is emotion in motion. By Mae West

Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present. By Mae West

I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself. By Mae West

Men are not realists - only women are. By Mae West

I've been in more laps than a napkin. By Mae West

Brains are an asset, if you hide them. By Mae West

I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported. By Mae West

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art. By Mae West

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

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

You gotta get up early in the morning to catch a fox and stay up late at night to get a mink. By Mae West

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from. By Mae West

It's hard to find a good man, but it's good to find a hard one. By Mae West

Ice is nice at any price. By Mae West

Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!' 'Goodness had nothing to do with it'. By 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. By 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. By Mae West

I've always taken men just as I found 'em, and thank heavens I've been able to find 'em. By Mae West

It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men. By Mae West

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction. By Mae West

What's the good of resisting temptation? There'll always be more. By Mae West

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

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of. By Mae West

Men are all alike - except the one you've met who's different. By Mae West

I consider sex a misdemeanor, the more I miss, de meaner I get. By Mae West

Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings. By Mae West

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

A man's kiss is his signature. By Mae West

I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction. By Mae West

Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. By Mae West

I speak two languages, Body and English. By Mae West

He who hesitates is a damned fool. By Mae West

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction. By Mae West

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

Men are my life, diamonds are my career. By Mae West

No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday. By Mae West

A hard man is good to find. By Mae West

Well behaved women do not make history. By Mae West

You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest. By Mae West

Don't let a man put anything over on you except an umbrella. By Mae West

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided. By Mae West

You are never too old to become younger! By Mae West

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

Keep a diary and one day it'll keep you. By 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. By Mae West

Sometimes I don't drink so the next day I can remember having fun. By Mae West

Beulah, peel me a grape By Mae West

Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins. By Mae West

Pour him out of here! By Mae West

Live close, visit often. By Mae West

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. By Mae West

Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you. By Mae West

Goodness had nothing to do with it. By Mae West

A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up. By Mae West

Women want certain things in marriagethe right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury. By Mae West

Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you. By Mae West

Look your best - who said love is blind? By Mae West

Always remember honey. A good motto is: Take all you can get and give as little as possible. By Mae West

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. By Mae West

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache. By 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. By Mae West

I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway. By Mae West

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond. By Mae West

I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them. By Mae West

Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand. By Mae West

The score never interested me, only the game. By Mae West

I've been rich and I've been poor, and rich is better. By Mae West

I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men? By Mae West

I've been things and I've seen places. By Mae West

A woman in love can't be reasonableor she probably wouldn't be in love. By Mae West

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office. By Mae West

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

I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action. By Mae West

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises. By Mae West

I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit. By Mae West

If you put your foot in it, be sure it's your best foot. By 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. By Mae West

I'd like to see Paris before I die. By Mae West

I've been things and seen places. By Mae West

The finest woman that ever walked the streets. By Mae West

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

When in doubt, take a bath... By Mae West

Some women pick men to marryand others pick them to pieces. By Mae West

Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign. By Mae West

The curve is more powerful than the sword. By Mae West

Love is what you make it and who you make it with. By Mae West

The best way to behave is to misbehave. By Mae West

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer. By Mae West

Sex is an emotion in motion. By Mae West

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often. By Mae West

Curve: The loveliest distance between two points. By Mae West

Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success. By Mae West

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

Love is the only industry which can't operate on a five-day week. By Mae West