Quotes from Mae West

Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.

men are not realists - only women are.

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

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

Getting married is like trading the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.

They say love is blind…and marriage is an institution. Well, I'm not ready for an institution for the blind just yet.

The best way to behave is to misbehave.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let 'em wonder. I never believed in givin' them too much of me.

I'm single because I was born that way.

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him

The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.

I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.

Kiss and make up--but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.

Marriage is a great institution. No family should be without it.

Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.

Men are easy to get but hard to keep.

Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

Beulah, peel me a grape.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.