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Mae West Quotes About Women

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

Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.

I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

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

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Mae West Quotes About Love

Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

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

Look your best - who said love is blind?

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

More Quotes by Mae West

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

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

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

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.

I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.

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

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

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

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

Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

Any time you've got nothing to do and lots of time to do it come on up.

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

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?

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

I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.

If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

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

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

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

Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.

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

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

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

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

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

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

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

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

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.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

I'd like to see Paris before I die. Philadelphia will do.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.

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

I speak two languages, Body and English.

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

I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

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