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Mae West
American
Actress
About the author
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Right
Look your best - who said love is blind?
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Love
#Blind
Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Man
#Reform
#Schools
Any time you've got nothing to do and lots of time to do it come on up.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Time
#Nothing
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Worth
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Mae West,
American
Actress
Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Time
#Nothing
Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Man
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Man
#Worth
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Fool
Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#May
An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Worth
#Performance
#Promises
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Chance
#Lovers
A man's kiss is his signature.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Man
#Kiss
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Man
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Will
#Man
#Women
#Fire
A hard man is good to find.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Man
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
Mae West,
American
Actress
Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Man
A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Love
#Woman
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.
Mae West,
American
Actress
The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Man
The score never interested me, only the game.
Mae West,
American
Actress
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
Mae West,
American
Actress
To err is human, but it feels divine.
Mae West,
American
Actress
Too much of a good thing can be taxing.
Mae West,
American
Actress
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
Mae West,
American
Actress
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Virtue
#Office
#Reward
When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
Mae West,
American
Actress
Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Man
Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Men
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Right
#Men
#Wrong
#Women
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
Mae West,
American
Actress
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Home
#Men
#Waiting
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.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Personality
#Space
Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Man
#Woman
#Opportunity
One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Work
#Will
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Marriage
Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Love
#Will
It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Now
#Sin
#Laws
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Love
#Poverty
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
Mae West,
American
Actress
Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
Mae West,
American
Actress
It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.
Mae West,
American
Actress
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Life
#Men
It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Funny
It takes two to get one in trouble.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Trouble
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
Mae West,
American
Actress
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Love
#Art
#Instinct
#Emotion
I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Man
#Hate
I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Man
#Ideals
I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.
Mae West,
American
Actress
Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Success
#Personality
I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
Mae West,
American
Actress
I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.
Mae West,
American
Actress
I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
Mae West,
American
Actress
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Success
#Wrong
His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Mother
When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
Mae West,
American
Actress
I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Restraint
I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
Mae West,
American
Actress
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Interest
#Worry
I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Needs
#Men
I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Men
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Temptation
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Man
#Woman
Sex is emotion in motion.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Sex
#Emotion
Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Want
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Day
#Rain
#Boyfriend
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.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Right
#Now
#Saying
#Dignity
#Censorship
If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Coffee
#Meaning
I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Censorship
#Fortune
I've been in more laps than a napkin.
Mae West,
American
Actress
I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Lady
#Imitation
I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Action
#Words
#Woman
I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
Mae West,
American
Actress
I'd like to see Paris before I die. Philadelphia will do.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Will
#Paris
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#Snow
I speak two languages, Body and English.
Mae West,
American
Actress
#English
#Body
I've been things and seen places.
Mae West,
American
Actress