Top 100 Mae West Quotes

#1. One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

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#2. When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

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#3. Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home)

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#4. Brains are an asset, if you hide them.

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#5. It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

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#6. Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost.

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#7. Sex is emotion in motion.

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#8. Always remember honey. A good motto is: Take all you can get and give as little as possible.

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

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#10. Well, the end of another busy day. I can't wait till I get back to bed. If that don't work I'll try to sleep.

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#11. You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.

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#12. It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

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#13. I've been things and I've seen places.

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#14. A man in love is like a clipped coupon - it's time to cash in.

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#15. March isn't the only thing that's in like a lion and out like a lamb.

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#16. A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.

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#17. Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.

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#18. I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

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#19. To err is human - but it feels divine.

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#20. Well behaved women do not make history.

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#21. I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.

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#22. Sex is an emotion in motion.

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#23. 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?

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#24. Pour him out of here!

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#25. Love is banality to all outsiders.

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#26. It's not what you can do, but the way you do it that counts.

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#27. Goodness had nothing to do with it.

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#28. Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.

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

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#30. Never ask a man where he has been.

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#31. When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?

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#32. Some women pick men to marry
and others pick them to pieces.

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#33. A girl in the convertible is worth five in the phone book.

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#34. I'm the kinda girl who works for Paramount by day, and Fox all night

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#35. Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

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#36. I like my clothes tight enough to show I'm a woman, but loose enough to show I'm a lady.

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#37. Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.

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#38. You gotta get up early in the morning to catch a fox and stay up late at night to get a mink.

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#39. A good man is hard to find
but you'll mostly find him asleep.

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#40. It's hard to find a good man, but it's good to find a hard one.

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#41. Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

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#42. You may think you're in love when the passions of sex get hold of you, but if you didn't love the man before, you won't love him after. Like him, maybe, but not love him.

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#43. When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

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#44. I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.

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#45. Live close, visit often.

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#46. I believe that one day the world will judge the witch hunt against homosexuals just as harshly as it judges the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust.

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#47. Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.

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

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#49. I'd like to see Paris before I die.

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#50. It's easy to get married, but hard to stay that way.

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

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#52. Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

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#53. Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini ...

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#54. I speak two languages, Body and English.

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#55. Sometimes it seems to me I've known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints.

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#56. Don't forget honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em.

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#57. I believe in the single standard
for men and women.

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#58. I don't like myself, I'm crazy about myself.

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#59. One more drink and I'll be under the host.

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#60. Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

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#61. A man in the house is worth two in the street.

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#62. Sometimes I don't drink so the next day I can remember having fun.

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

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#64. If you put your foot in it, be sure it's your best foot.

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#65. All the raves were just words. You don't want to let words confuse you. Words come cheap.

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#66. I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

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#67. Men are like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all over
them for years.

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#68. No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.

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#69. Some of the wildest men make the best pets.

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#70. 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 giving them too much of me.

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#71. Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love
that's not so bad either.

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#72. Give a man free hands, and you'll know where to find them.

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#73. Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said "I do, and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.

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#74. Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

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#75. Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

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

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#77. Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!' 'Goodness had nothing to do with it'.

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#78. The curve is more powerful than the sword.

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#79. I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.

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#80. Just a little sheep dip. Panacea for all stomach ailments.

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#81. I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

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#82. When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

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#83. It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men.

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#84. Diamonds talk, and I can stand listenin' to 'em often.

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#85. His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.

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#86. His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.

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

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#88. I consider sex a misdemeanor, the more I miss, de meaner I get.

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#89. All pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on.

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#90. Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.

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#91. When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.

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

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#93. I know so much about men because I went to night school.

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#94. I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.

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#95. It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

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#96. Love is the only industry which can't operate on a five-day week.

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

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#98. Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

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#99. I've been in more laps than a napkin.

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#100. Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

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