Mae West Quotes

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

Girls who responded to the advertisement and then were willing to put themselves under Fong's wing, so to speak, till they could be inspected by the theatrical agent' were of a type that had no important family ties. (…) Each had a story behind her, but it was the story of the hundreds, the thousands. It was the story of a little ambition and a great hope; of immense trust and a few brains; of false pride and tragic courage. They were but units in the great mass of humanity which seem destined to struggle vainly for any realization of happiness and who go under in the backwash of the tide of living.

If I had known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.

You take one thing and add it to another and you get two. Two and two is four; and five'll get you ten if you know how to work it!

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

Men are all alike - except the one you've met who's different.

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

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

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

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart.
Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook.

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

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

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.