Mae West quotes

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

— Mae West

“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.”

— Mae West

“Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.”

— Mae West

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

— Mae West

“Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.”

— Mae West

“Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.”

— Mae West

“A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.”

— Mae West

“It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it. I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.”

— Mae West

“A hard man is good to find.”

— Mae West

“A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.”

— Mae West

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

— Mae West

“Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.”

— Mae West

“When women go wrong, men go right after them.”

— Mae West

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

— Mae West

“She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.”

— Mae West

“Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.”

— Mae West

“The best way to hold a man is in your arms.”

— Mae West

“I never loved another person the way I loved myself.”

— Mae West

“To err is human, but it feels divine.”

— Mae West