40 Quotes By Mae West


Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
Mae West on love

Look your best - who said love is blind?
Mae West on love

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Mae West on marriage

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

A man's kiss is his signature.
Mae West on men

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

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

When women go wrong, men go right after them.
Mae West on men

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

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

Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.
Mae West on men

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

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

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

When women go wrong, men go right after them.
Mae West on women

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

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 on work

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 givin’ them too much of me.
Mae West on advice

I was pure as the driven snow, then I drifted.
Mae West on purity

Too much of a good thing can be taxing.
Mae West on sex