Quotes from Mae West

I'm a good woman for a bad man.

It's hard to find a good man, but it's good to find a hard one.

I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.

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

Women are like roads. The more curves they have, the more dangerous they are.

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

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

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

A man in the house is worth two in the street.

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

Well behaved women do not make history.

I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.

Give a man free hands, and you'll know where to find them.

I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.

Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls, if he has been out on illegitimate business, it's your own fault.

I know so much about men because I went to night school.

Never ask a man where he has been.

I never set out to make men a career; it just happened that way.

He's the kind of man who picks his friends - to pieces.

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

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.