“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
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Famous Mae West Quotes
“Goodness had nothing to do with it.”
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“It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men.”
“A me piacciono solo due tipi di uomini: gli stranieri e quelli del mio Paese.”
“I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.”
“Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.”
“Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.”
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“It's not what you can do, but the way you do it that counts.”
“Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.”
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“Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.”
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“Brains are an asset to the woman in love who's smart enough to hide 'em.”
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“Love is the only industry which can't operate on a five-day week.”
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“Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.”
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“It's easy to get married, but hard to stay that way.”
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“Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.”
“I'm a good woman for a bad man.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“We're intellectual opposites. Well, I'm intellectual and you're opposite.”
“Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!”
“All the raves were just words. You don't want to let words confuse you. Words come cheap.”
“Never mind about the six feet. Let's talk about the seven inches.”
“A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.”
“I'm the girl that works at Paramount all day, and Fox all night.”
“I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“Hollywood was like a mouse being followed by a cat called television.”
“Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!”
“I've always taken men just as I found 'em, and thank heavens I've been able to find 'em.”
“I never set out to make men a career; it just happened that way.”
Source: Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography
“I like a man what takes his time.”
Source: Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography
Source: Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography
“When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?”
“men are not realists - only women are.”
Source: Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography
“... love is banality to all outsiders.”
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“In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West