Top 242 Quotes & Sayings by Mae West - Page 4

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

Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said "I do, and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.

Ice is nice at any price.

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

I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.

Come up and see me sometime.

I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.

You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

I never needed Panavision and stereophonic sound to woo the world. I did it in black and white on a screen the size of a postage stamp. Honey, that's talent.

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?

Tira: Whatever you're thinkin' you're wrong. I only like him like a brother. You ain't got nothin' to worry about. . . . Say listen you. A better dame than you once called me a liar and they had to sew her up in twelve different places. You're lucky I'm a little more refined than I used to be. And if you was as much a lady as I am, you'd get out of here before I get real sore. Alicia: You haven't a streak of decency in you. Tira: I don't show my good points to strangers. I'll trouble you to scram.

Sometimes it seems to me I've known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints.

Just a little sheep dip. Panacea for all stomach ailments.

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

The censors wouldn't even let me sit on a guy's lap, and I've been on more laps than a table-napkin.

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

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

I saw what a mess a lot of people could make of their lives when they're smitten. Some of them go temporarily insane. They find a person who they think holds the key to their happiness-the only key to their happiness... My work has always been my greatest happiness

I always did like a man in uniform. And that one fits you grand. Why don't you come up sometime and see me?

Dates in Calendar are Closer Than They Appear! Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.

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

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

Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart. Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook.

I'm the girl that works at Paramount all day, and Fox all night.

Too many girls follow the line of least resistance, but a good line is hard to resist.

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

Tira begins to sing "I'm No Angel" to him as the screen fades: Baby, I can warm you with this love of mine. I'm No Angel. Aw, let me feel my fingers running through your hair, I can give you kisses. . . .

I believe in the single standard -- for men and women.

The finest woman that ever walked the streets.

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

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

Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises.

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

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

Live close, visit often.

... love is banality to all outsiders.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

men are not realists - only women are.

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.

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.

Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.

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

A girl in the convertible is worth five in the phone book.

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

The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood.

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.

I'd like to see Paris before I die.

To her British lover about to climb in bed with 80-something Mae: She said that she hoped soon to be able to say what Paul Revere said - 'The British are coming'. This was the last one-liner Mae ever uttered on film.

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

Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.

The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood ... Life elsewhere was real and slippery and struggled in the arms like a big fish dying in air.

Too many Broadway actors in motion pictures lost their grip on success--had a feeling that none of it had ever happened on that sun-drenched coast, that the coast itself did not exist, there was no California. It had dropped away like a hasty dream and nothing could ever have been like the things they thought they remembered.

Beulah, peel me a grape

Pour him out of here!

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