My favorite quotes!

Mae West was WAY ahead of her time…she was born at the end of the Victorian era. (114 years ago!)
She was very wry and witty with her sexual innuendos; she was a scandalous woman in her time. Enjoy!

MAE WEST [1893-1980]
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

A hard man is good to find.


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


A man in the house is worth two in the street.

A man's kiss is his signature.

A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.

Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.


Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.


Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.


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

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


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


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


Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.


He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.


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


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


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


I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.


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


I never loved another person the way I loved myself.


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


I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?


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


I speak two languages, Body and English.


I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.


I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

I've been in more laps than a napkin.


It is better to be looked over than overlooked.


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.


It takes two to get one in trouble.

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.


Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.


Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

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

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

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.


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

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.


Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.


The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

The score never interested me, only the game.

To err is human, but it feels divine.

Too much of a good thing can be taxing.

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


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

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

When women go wrong, men go right after them.


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

MAE WEST