Quotes By Mae West

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

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Sex is emotion in motion.

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

I'd like to see Paris before I die. Philadelphia will do.

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

It takes two to get one in trouble.

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

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

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

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

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

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

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

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

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

I speak two languages, Body and English.