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Famous Mae West Quotes
“Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.”
“It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.”
“I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.”
“The score never interested me, only the game.”
“He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.”
“One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.”
“Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.”
“If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.”
“The best way to hold a man is in your arms.”
“Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.”
“Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.”
“She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.”
“I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.”
“A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.”
“I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.”
“Look your best - who said love is blind?”
“It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.”
“Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.”
“You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.”
“I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.”
“Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.”
“Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.”
“It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.”
“I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.”
“I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.”
“I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.”
“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.”
“Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present”
“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
“Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.”
“Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile.”