Top 242 Quotes & Sayings by Mae West - Page 3

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

Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile.

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

I freely chose the kind of life I led because I was convinced that a woman has as much right as a man to live the way she does if she does no actual harm to society.

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

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.

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.

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

I'm single because I was born that way.

I have never loved a man as much as I have loved myself

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

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.

Love is what you make it and who you make it with.

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

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

[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more.

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

Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Some of the wildest men make the best pets.

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

I'm a good woman for a bad man.

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

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

Men? Sure, I've known lots of them. But I never found one I liked well enough to marry. Besides, I've always been busy with my work. Marriage is a career in itself and to make a success of it you've got to keep working at it. So until I can give the.

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

Dress gives one the outward sign from which people in general can, and often do, judge upon the inward state of mind and feelings.

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

I don't know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man when I see one.

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

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

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

I’ve been things and I've seen places.

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

A good man is hard to find -- but you'll mostly find him asleep.

Brains are an asset, if you hide them.

Never ask a man where he has been.

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

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

More people saw me than saw Napoleon, Lincoln and Cleopatra. I was better known than Einstein and Picasso. ... I changed the fashion of two continents. The style of the Gay Nineties became the rage ... women were trying to walk and talk like me. Women became more sex-conscious - sex was out in the open and fun.

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

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

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

Dating means two things; disillusionment or a racing heart.

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

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

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

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

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

I like a man what takes his time.

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

I started out as Snow White, but then I drifted.

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

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