Mae West Quotes - Page 3

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

It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.

March isn't the only thing that's in like a lion and out like a lamb.

Flattery will get you everywhere.

Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home)

Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.

Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls, if he has been out on illegitimate business, it's your own fault.

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.

When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

You gotta get up early in the morning to catch a fox and stay up late at night to get a mink.

No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.

Why don’t you come up and have a little ... scotch and sofa?

Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini.

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

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

A man's kiss is his signature.

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

The curve is more powerful than the sword.

Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.

I've been in more laps than a napkin.

I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself.

Sometimes I don't drink so the next day I can remember having fun.

[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more.

Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile.