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 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

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

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

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

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

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

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

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

You are never too old to become younger!

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

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

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

I've been things and seen places.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm single because I was born that way.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

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.

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?