Mae West Quotes

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

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

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

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

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

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

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

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

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

There are no good girls gone wrong – just bad girls found out.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.