Quotes from Mae West

Don't come crawlin' to a man for love-he likes to get a run for his money.

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

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.

Sometimes it seems to me I've known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints.

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

Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart. Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook.

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

I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction.

Men are my life, diamonds are my career.

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.

You gotta get up early in the morning to catch a fox and stay up late at night to get a mink.

His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.

Some of the wildest men make the best pets.

You are never too old to become younger!

I don't know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man when I see one.

Positive thoughts generate positive feelings and attract positive life experiences. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

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

Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening. . . . Come up. I'll tell your fortune. . . . Ah, you can be had.

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

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

Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can't ever take that away from you.

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

If you put your foot in it, be sure it's your best foot.