Quotes from Mae West

The curve is more powerful than the sword.

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.

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?

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

The score never interested me, only the game.

Keep a diary and one day it'll keep you.

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

JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court? MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it.

I've been things and seen places.

Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

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

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

One more drink and I'll be under the host.

A man's kiss is his signature.

Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

Love is like a booger, you pick and pick at it. Then when you get it you wonder how to get rid of it.

No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.

I've been in more laps than a napkin.

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

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

I saw what a mess a lot of people could make of their lives when they're smitten. Some of them go temporarily insane. They find a person who they think holds the key to their happiness-the only key to their happiness... My work has always been my greatest happiness