Mae West Quotes

"A man in the house is worth two in the street."

"Too many girls follow the line of least resistance--but a good line is hard to resist."

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

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

"Men? Sure, I've known lots of them. But I never found one I liked well enough to marry. Besides, I've always been busy with my work. Marriage is a career in itself and to make a success of it you've got to keep working at it. So until I can give the"

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

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

"Men are easy to get but hard to keep."

"Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces."

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

"So many men, so little time."

"He who hesitates is last."

"He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of."

"How do you do, Miss West? Mae West: How do you do what?"

"I used to be Snow White, but I drifted."

"When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin."

"A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one."

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

"Success is a two-bladed golden sword; it knights one and stabs one at the same time."

"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution."