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Women are like roads. The more curves they have, the more dangerous they are.
I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.
I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect.
Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.
A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.
In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood.
If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!
Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action
No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.
Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.
You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.
I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.
Men are like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all over them for years.
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself.
Too many girls follow the line of least resistance, but a good line is hard to resist.
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.
I don't know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man when I see one.
I like my clothes tight enough to show I'm a woman, but loose enough to show I'm a lady.
I've always taken men just as I found 'em, and thank heavens I've been able to find 'em.
Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you
Don't forget honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em.
All the raves were just words. You don't want to let words confuse you. Words come cheap.
I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost.
I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.
Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love--that's not so bad either.
When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.
Always remember honey. A good motto is: Take all you can get and give as little as possible.
When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?
You gotta get up early in the morning to catch a fox and stay up late at night to get a mink.
Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!
I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction.
Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!
JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court? MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it.
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.
One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.
Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can't ever take that away from you.
The censors wouldn't even let me sit on a guy's lap, and I've been on more laps than a table-napkin.
Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.
You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.
For a long time I was ashamed of the way I lived. Did I reform, you ask? No. I'm not ashamed anymore.
Love is like a booger, you pick and pick at it. Then when you get it you wonder how to get rid of it.