You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
– Mae West
A hard man is good to find.
– Mae West
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
– Mae West
A man's kiss is his signature.
– Mae West
An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
– Mae West
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
– Mae West
Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.
– Mae West
Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
– Mae West
Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.
– Mae West
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
– Mae West
I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
– Mae West
I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
– Mae West
I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
– Mae West
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
– Mae West
I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?
– Mae West
I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
– Mae West
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
– Mae West
I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.
– Mae West
I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
– Mae West
If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
– Mae West
It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
– Mae West
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
– Mae West
It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
– Mae West
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
– Mae West
It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.
– Mae West
Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
– Mae West
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
– Mae West
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
– Mae West
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
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.
– Mae West
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
– Mae West
Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
– Mae West
Sex is emotion in motion.
– Mae West
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
– Mae West
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
– Mae West
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
– Mae West
To err is human, but it feels divine.
– Mae West
Too much of a good thing can be taxing.
– Mae West
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
– Mae West
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
– Mae West
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
– Mae West
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
– Mae West
His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
– Mae West
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
– Mae West
You're never too old to become younger.
– Mae West
When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
– Mae West
The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
– Mae West
Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.
– Mae West
Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.
– Mae West
Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
– Mae West
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
– Mae West
Look your best - who said love is blind?
– Mae West
I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
– Mae West
Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
– Mae West
A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.
