Mae West
You gotta get up early in the morning to catch a fox and stay up late at night to get a mink.Collection: Morning
Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini.Collection: Food
Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.Collection: Sarcastic
Flattery will get you everywhere.Collection: Flattery
The curve is more powerful than the sword.Collection: Powerful
Sometimes it seems to me I've known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints.Collection: Men
I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself.Collection: Funny
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!' 'Goodness had nothing to do with it'.Collection: Funny
Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile.Collection: Funny
You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.Collection: Funny
Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!Collection: Men
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.Collection: Marriage
... love is banality to all outsiders.Collection: Love Is
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.Collection: Fashion
I never set out to make men a career; it just happened that way.Collection: Men
I always did like a man in uniform. And that one fits you grand. Why don't you come up sometime and see me?Collection: Flirting
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.Collection: Husband
Love is the only industry which can't operate on a five-day week.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Bed
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?Collection: Sarcastic
Just a little sheep dip. Panacea for all stomach ailments.Collection: Drinking
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.Collection: Brother
Diamonds talk, and I can stand listenin' to 'em often.Collection: Jewels
Beulah, peel me a grapeCollection: Inspiration
I'm the girl that works at Paramount all day, and Fox all night.Collection: Girl
Ice is nice at any price.Collection: Nice
I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.Collection: Weakness
Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!Collection: Men
Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.Collection: Girl
Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.Collection: Sarcastic
Love is what you make it and who you make it with.Collection: Love
I'm single because I was born that way.Collection: Sarcastic
I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.Collection: Women
Sometimes I don't drink so the next day I can remember having fun.Collection: Fun
Some of the wildest men make the best pets.Collection: Men
I freely chose the kind of life I led because I was convinced that a woman has as much right as a man to live the way she does if she does no actual harm to society.Collection: Men
It's hard to find a good man, but it's good to find a hard one.Collection: Men
Don't forget honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em.Collection: Men
When in doubt take a bathCollection: Inspiring
Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.Collection: Marriage
[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more.Collection: Hem
Men? Sure, I've known lots of them. But I never found one I liked well enough to marry. Besides, I've always been busy with my work. Marriage is a career in itself and to make a success of it you've got to keep working at it. So until I can give the.Collection: Men
You may think you're in love when the passions of sex get hold of you, but if you didn't love the man before, you won't love him after. Like him, maybe, but not love him.Collection: Sex
Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.Collection: Sarcastic
Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.Collection: Children
Don't ever make the same mistake twice unless it pays.Collection: Mistake
I have never loved a man as much as I have loved myselfCollection: Men
I started out as Snow White, but then I drifted.Collection: White
Dating means two things; disillusionment or a racing heart.Collection: Heart