Quotes from Mae West

Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

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

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

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

Why don't you come up sometime and see me?… Come on up, I'll tell your fortune.

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

Too much of a good thing can be taxing.

You ought to get out of those wet clothes and into a dry martini.

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

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

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

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

It's not the men in my life, it's the life in my men.

I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself.

Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.

Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

Sex is emotion in motion.

I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.

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