Quotes By Mae West

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

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

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

I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.

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.

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

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

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

To err is human, but it feels divine.

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

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

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

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

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.