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| Mae West (click to enlarge) |
Mae West was a very smart, witty, and sexy, woman. As a screenwriter and actor, she wrote and delivered many of the "lines" listed below on Broadway and in her movies.
- A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
- A hard man is good to find.
- A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
- A man in the house is worth two in the street.
- A man's kiss is his signature.
- All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
- An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
- 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.
- Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.
- 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.
- He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
- I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
- I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
- I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.
- 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 used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
- 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.
- If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
- It ain't no sin if you bend a few laws now and then - just so long as you don't break any.
- It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
- Look your best - who said love is blind?
- 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.
- Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and imported.
- Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
- She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
- The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
- The score never interested me, only the game.
- Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
- To err is human, but it feels divine.
- Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
- When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
- You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
-- Mae West
