Mae West Quotes - Page 8

You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!

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

I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.

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

... love is banality to all outsiders.

Just a little sheep dip. Panacea for all stomach ailments.

More people saw me than saw Napoleon, Lincoln and Cleopatra. I was better known than Einstein and Picasso. ... I changed the fashion of two continents. The style of the Gay Nineties became the rage ... women were trying to walk and talk like me. Women became more sex-conscious - sex was out in the open and fun.

I never set out to make men a career; it just happened that way.

I always did like a man in uniform. And that one fits you grand. Why don't you come up sometime and see me?

Live close, visit often.

Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said "I do, and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.

Love is the only industry which can't operate on a five-day week.

To her British lover about to climb in bed with 80-something Mae: She said that she hoped soon to be able to say what Paul Revere said - 'The British are coming'. This was the last one-liner Mae ever uttered on film.

I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress?

Tira: Whatever you're thinkin' you're wrong. I only like him like a brother. You ain't got nothin' to worry about. . . . Say listen you. A better dame than you once called me a liar and they had to sew her up in twelve different places. You're lucky I'm a little more refined than I used to be. And if you was as much a lady as I am, you'd get out of here before I get real sore. Alicia: You haven't a streak of decency in you. Tira: I don't show my good points to strangers. I'll trouble you to scram.

Diamonds talk, and I can stand listenin' to 'em often.

Beulah, peel me a grape

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

I'm the girl that works at Paramount all day, and Fox all night.

Ice is nice at any price.

I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!

Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.