Mae west Inspirational Quotes

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

I've been in more laps than a napkin.

JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court? MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it.

Well, the end of another busy day. I can't wait till I get back to bed. If that don't work I'll try to sleep.

Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.

You are never too old to become younger!

I've always taken men just as I found 'em, and thank heavens I've been able to find 'em.

Don't ever make the same mistake twice unless it pays.

A man's kiss is his signature.

Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.

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

Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile.

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

You may think you're in love when the passions of sex get hold of you, but if you didn't love the man before, you won't love him after. Like him, maybe, but not love him.

Never mind about the six feet. Let's talk about the seven inches.

Positive thoughts generate positive feelings and attract positive life experiences. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Well behaved women do not make history.

Look your best - who said love is blind?

Dating means two things; disillusionment or a racing heart.

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

I don't know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man when I see one.

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

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

You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.

Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

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

To err is human, but it feels divine.

Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can't ever take that away from you.

I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.

[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more.

Don't come crawlin' to a man for love-he likes to get a run for his money.

I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.

Some of the wildest men make the best pets.

Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.

Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.

Love is like a booger, you pick and pick at it. Then when you get it you wonder how to get rid of it.

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.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.

A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

I have never loved a man as much as I have loved myself

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

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

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

No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.

The curve is more powerful than the sword.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

Women are like roads. The more curves they have, the more dangerous they are.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon - it's time to cash in.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

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

Give a man free hands, and you'll know where to find them.

I don't like myself, I'm crazy about myself.

Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.

It's hard to find a good man, but it's good to find a hard one.

I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.

I consider sex a misdemeanor, the more I miss, de meaner I get.

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

I made myself platinum, but I was born a dirty blonde.

His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.

March isn't the only thing that's in like a lion and out like a lamb.

I like my clothes tight enough to show I'm a woman, but loose enough to show I'm a lady.

It's not what you can do, but the way you do it that counts.

Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present

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

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

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

You gotta get up early in the morning to catch a fox and stay up late at night to get a mink.

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

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

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.

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

Always remember honey. A good motto is: Take all you can get and give as little as possible.

Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini.

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

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

How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches!

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

I freely chose the kind of life I led because I was convinced that a woman has as much right as a man to live the way she does if she does no actual harm to society.

When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.

The score never interested me, only the game.

Don't forget honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em.

The best way to behave is to misbehave.

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

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

I'm single because I was born that way.

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.

When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

I'm a good woman for a bad man.

Men? Sure, I've known lots of them. But I never found one I liked well enough to marry. Besides, I've always been busy with my work. Marriage is a career in itself and to make a success of it you've got to keep working at it. So until I can give the.

Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home)

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

I started out as Snow White, but then I drifted.

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

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

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

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

I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself.

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

We're intellectual opposites. Well, I'm intellectual and you're opposite.

Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls, if he has been out on illegitimate business, it's your own fault.

Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love--that's not so bad either.

A hard man is good to find.

Men are like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all over them for years.

Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action

I know so much about men because I went to night school.

I believe that one day the world will judge the witch hunt against homosexuals just as harshly as it judges the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust.

When in doubt take a bath

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

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

Sex is emotion in motion.

Sometimes I don't drink so the next day I can remember having fun.

For a long time I was ashamed of the way I lived. Did I reform, you ask? No. I'm not ashamed anymore.

Why don’t you come up and have a little ... scotch and sofa?

Love is what you make it and who you make it with.

Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.

Don't let a man put anything over on you except an umbrella.

Flattery will get you everywhere.

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