Mae West Quotes - Page 7

Come up and see me sometime.

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

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

Dress gives one the outward sign from which people in general can, and often do, judge upon the inward state of mind and feelings.

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

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

The censors wouldn't even let me sit on a guy's lap, and I've been on more laps than a table-napkin.

The finest woman that ever walked the streets.

It takes two to get one in trouble.

Kiss and make up-but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

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

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

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

I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.

Men are my life, diamonds are my career.

I saw what a mess a lot of people could make of their lives when they're smitten. Some of them go temporarily insane. They find a person who they think holds the key to their happiness-the only key to their happiness... My work has always been my greatest happiness

Too many Broadway actors in motion pictures lost their grip on success--had a feeling that none of it had ever happened on that sun-drenched coast, that the coast itself did not exist, there was no California. It had dropped away like a hasty dream and nothing could ever have been like the things they thought they remembered.

The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.

It's easy to get married, but hard to stay that way.

Never ask a man where he has been.

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

It's not what you say, but how you say it!

You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.

No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.