Mae West Witty Quotations

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

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

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

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.

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

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

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

I've been in more laps than a napkin.

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

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

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

I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress?

Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

I'm single because I was born that way.

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

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

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

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

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

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

I've been things and seen places.

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

It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect.

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

You are never too old to become younger!

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

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

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

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

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

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

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

I saw what a mess a lot of people could make of their lives when they're smitten. Some of them go temporarily insane. They find a person who they think holds the key to their happiness-the only key to their happiness... My work has always been my greatest happiness