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Mae West

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I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.
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My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but when you come to America, you speak E...
MELANIA TRUMP
I actually speak fluent English and Spanish and... I dabble in a couple of languages, but I'm no...
COTE DE PABLO
Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, an...
SEBASTIAN ARCELUS
A plumber's idea of Cleopatra [Mae West].
W. C. FIELDS
I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these lan...
CARICE VAN HOUTEN
Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache. -Mae West.
MAE WEST
How do you do, Miss West? Mae West: How do you do what?
MAE WEST
I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he us...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO
An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away. ~Mae West
LAINA CHARLESTON
When women go wrong, men go right after them. -Mae West.
MAE WEST
In our generation, everybody told us that it's really important and it's nice to be able to ...
ADELE EXARCHOPOULOS
Oh, Miss West, I've heard so much about you. Mae West: Yeah, honey, but you can't prove a thing.
MAE WEST
I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.
SHIRLEY HUFSTEDLER
I would like to speak 10 languages.
LEON REDBONE
I'd give half my life for just one kiss. Mae West: Then kiss me twice.
MAE WEST
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough
MAE WEST
I speak Italian, French, Creole and English.
META GOLDING
We can't communicate. I don't speak Japanese and he doesn't speak English.
KEVIN APPIER
I've been doing a lot of thinking about you lately. Mae West, You must be awful tired.
MAE WEST
Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beau...
MAYA ANGELOU
I have passed English medical examinations in Hong Kong... In my youth, I experienced overseas studi...
SUN YAT-SEN
English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two d...
A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM
English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two d...
ABDUL KALAM
I speak, Hindi, English, and American. I'm trilingual.
PRIYANKA CHOPRA
You who speak languages, you are such liars.
ORSON SCOTT CARD
I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh,
MARIO LEMIEUX
I learned how to speak English watching television.
AZITA GHANIZADA
When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never s...
CHARLOTTE CHURCH
I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub my...
JODIE FOSTER
Well, I'm trilingual myself. I am, I know how to speak Spanish, English, obviously, and I speak ...
CAM NEWTON
I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best ...
EVA MENDES
As languages become rare they become less attractive for people to use and speak.
BILL SUTHERLAND
(During a trial in which she was accused of indecency on stage)Judge: 'Miss West, are you trying to ...
MAE WEST
I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.
MARIO LEMIEUX
The idea that foreign preachers who don't speak English are radicalizing British youth who speak not...
MASSOUD SHADJAREH
The idea that foreign preachers who don't speak English are radicalizing British youth who speak not...
MASSOUD SHADJAREH
The driver didn't speak English.
EUDE BRITO
All our non-English speakers are Hispanic, we have no other (foreign) languages at Michelson.
ALBERT MICHELSON
The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hund...
SCOTT MCNEALY
Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.
ARAVIND ADIGA
I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all ...
MIRANDA JULY
I am a stupendously fast reader and always have been. I can read in at least three languages fluentl...
MICHAEL KORDA
The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself.
SANDRA CISNEROS
Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.
ZHANG YIMOU
I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lif...
JOSHUA FOER
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in whi...
J. G. BALLARD
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
ALAN PERLIS
I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital w...
ANGELA AHRENDTS
There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as som...
MICHAEL GOVE
People know two languages: their native language and gibberish.
MARIBEL C. PAGAN
There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.
MALALA YOUSAFZAI
For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In m...
F. SIONIL JOSE
People ask me, 'Casey, how can you speak so much when you don't talk English too good?' Well, I've b...
CASEY STENGEL
I lost a lot of confidence (in basketball) because I didn't speak English.
KARLA MORIEL
A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.
DAVID CRYSTAL
Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a go...
WARREN BUFFETT
American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.
GORDIE HOWE
Sometimes they can't speak English, and sometimes they just don't want to tell us they can understan...
BOB PRATT
Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
IMAN
Isn't language loss a good thing, because fewer languages mean easier communication among the world'...
JARED DIAMOND
For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.
ZHANG YIMOU
I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned
QUENTIN CRISP
Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we sp...
MARK PAGEL
In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.
CAREY WILLIAMS
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and...
CHEECH MARIN
Every place in the world where there are two peoples - two religions, two languages - there is frict...
AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
ARNOLD TOYNBEE
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English
WILFRED SHEED
Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.
JEFFREY EUGENIDES
As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland ...
GARRY HYNES
In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.
WATKIN TUDOR JONES
Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languag...
LORD MELBOURNE
I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even ...
I. M. PEI
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
CLARENCE DARROW
Always blame it on the guy who doesn't speak English
DAN CASTELLANETA
I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis a...
SHARAD PAWAR
When I came here, I couldn't speak a word of English, but my sex life was perfect. Now my English is...
JULIO IGLESIAS
I have traveled more than any one else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with a...
MARK TWAIN
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat ...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to bea...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
There are Jews who came from 102 countries and speak 81 languages - how do you consolidate them into...
YITZHAK NAVON
Mae: I've been asked to get married lots of times. Rae: Who asked you? Mae: Mom and Dad. Lots of...
UNKNOWN
English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it. Nobody tried to stop this ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
People in Louisiana speak Cajun but that's a little different than most of the languages we have her...
MIKE HUCKABEE
We barely speak French when we are together. We always want to improve on our English so we rather s...
OUMAR SYLLA
He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – w...
PHILIPPA GREGORY
Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.
FRANK CAPRA
Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music
FRANK CAPRA
I try to talk to everybody. If you can't speak English, I'm going to do sign language,
HELEN WILSON
I have always been fond of the West African proverb: Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The gaffer has brought in some new players and some do not yet speak English,
BARRY FERGUSON
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with unc...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly ...
VICTOR HUGO
I sing in Hungarian. I read Hungarian. I do not pretend to speak Hungarian, but I sing in languages ...
JESSYE NORMAN
I failed world geography, civics, Spanish and English. And when you fail Spanish and English, they d...
TIM SCOTT
My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak Engl...
OONA CHAPLIN
I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first lan...
ODETTE ANNABLE
It was only stares and swearwords really, nothing serious. I just laugh about it because they can ha...
KEVIN PIETERSEN

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She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
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I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
MAE WEST
Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
MAE WEST
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.
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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.
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When women go wrong, men go right after them. -Mae West.
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Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.
MAE WEST
So many men, so little time.
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Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.
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When women go wrong, men go right after them.
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It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
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I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.
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Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.
MAE WEST
I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
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Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
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He who hesitates is last.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
MAE WEST
Sex is an emotion in motion.
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Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.
MAE WEST
His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
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I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.
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He who hesitates is a damned fool.
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Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
MAE WEST
I'm single because I was born that way.
MAE WEST
I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.
MAE WEST
I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.
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A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
MAE WEST
My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned,...
MAE WEST
When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.
MAE WEST
It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now ju...
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When I have to choose between two evils, I always try to pick the one I haven't tried before.
MAE WEST
Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.
MAE WEST
You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
MAE WEST
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
MAE WEST
My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned,...
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There are no good girls gone wrong, just bad girls found out.
MAE WEST
Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
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The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.
MAE WEST
I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.
MAE WEST
I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.
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You're never too old to become younger
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Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.
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Sex is an emotion in motion
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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You are doing your best only when you are trying to improve what you are doing
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The best way to behave is to misbehave.
MAE WEST
The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
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You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.
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A woman in love can't be reasonable--or she probably wouldn't be in love.
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When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.
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You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, ...
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it
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To err is human - but it feels divine
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
MAE WEST
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
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I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
MAE WEST
Men are all alike--except the one you've met who's different.
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Men are easy to get but hard to keep.
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Few men know how to kiss well. Fortunately, I've always had time to teach them.
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Kiss and make up--but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
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I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself
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It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.
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When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
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Dating should be less about matching outward circumstances than meeting your inner necessity.
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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
MAE WEST
When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
MAE WEST
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
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Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right no...
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Sex is emotion in motion.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
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Too much of a good thing can be taxing.
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She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!
MAE WEST
You are never too old to become younger!
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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
MAE WEST
If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
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When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.
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I used to be Snow White -- but I drifted.
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A man in the house is worth two on the street.
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I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
MAE WEST
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
MAE WEST
I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.
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Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much eas...
MAE WEST
Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.
MAE WEST
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
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Saving love doesn't bring any interest.
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'Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening.... Come up. I'll tell your fortun...
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office.
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You're never too old to become younger.
MAE WEST
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
MAE WEST
Don't cry for a man who's left you, the next one may fall for your smile.
MAE WEST
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
MAE WEST
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct--it's an art.
MAE WEST
I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
MAE WEST
It takes two to get one in trouble.
MAE WEST
An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away
MAE WEST
Women with "pasts" interest men because men hope that history will repeat itself.
MAE WEST
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
MAE WEST
Virtue has its own reward, but has no sale at the box office.
MAE WEST
His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork
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Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present.
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MAE WEST
It's not what you can do, but the way you do it that counts.
MAE WEST
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
MAE WEST
Cultivate your curves--they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
MAE WEST
Look your best--who said love is blind?
MAE WEST
You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles...
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I like a man who's good, but not too good--for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
MAE WEST
Oh, Miss West, I've heard so much about you. Mae West: Yeah, honey, but you can't prove a thing.
MAE WEST
To err is human, but it feels divine.
MAE WEST
A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty--he has suffered longer.
MAE WEST
I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
MAE WEST
I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
MAE WEST
I've been in more laps than a napkin.
MAE WEST
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
MAE WEST
It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men.
MAE WEST
To err is human - but it feels divine.
MAE WEST
It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect.
MAE WEST
Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else
MAE WEST
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
MAE WEST
Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache. -Mae West.
MAE WEST
It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
MAE WEST
Flattery will get you everywhere.
MAE WEST
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
MAE WEST
Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.
MAE WEST
The best way to find your perfect match is to meet love halfway.
MAE WEST
Don't marry a man to reform him--that's what reform schools are for.
MAE WEST
When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
MAE WEST
Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.
MAE WEST
I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.
MAE WEST
Love thy neighbor--and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easi...
MAE WEST
Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.
MAE WEST
I've been in more laps than a napkin.
MAE WEST
Too many girls follow the line of least resistance--but a good line is hard to resist.
MAE WEST
There are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.
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Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
MAE WEST
It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do...
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I don't know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man when I see one
MAE WEST
Personally, I like two types of men--domestic and foreign.
MAE WEST
He's the kind of man who picks his friends...to pieces.
MAE WEST
When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before
MAE WEST
You ain't no oil paintin' but you are a fascinatin' monster.
MAE WEST
I was Snow White but I drifted.
MAE WEST
[Per Alexander Pope (1734):] Vice is a monster of so frightful mien/As to be hated, needs but to be ...
MAE WEST
[Nov. 30-Dec. 10:] Dirty Blonde ... I made myself platinum, but I was born a dirty blonde.
MAE WEST
Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.
MAE WEST
Some men are all right in their place--if they only knew the right places!
MAE WEST
Success is a two-bladed golden sword; it knights one and stabs one at the same time.
MAE WEST
(During a trial in which she was accused of indecency on stage)Judge: 'Miss West, are you trying to ...
MAE WEST
Men? Sure, I've known lots of them. But I never found one I liked well enough to marry. Besides, I'v...
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Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The non professional volunteer world is ...
MAE WEST
Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.
MAE WEST
Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.
MAE WEST
One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
MAE WEST
Ohhhhh! I feel like a million but, I'll take'em one at a time!
MAE WEST
I've been doing a lot of thinking about you lately. Mae West, You must be awful tired.
MAE WEST
I'd give half my life for just one kiss. Mae West: Then kiss me twice.
MAE WEST
I only like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
MAE WEST
I believe in the single standard for men and women.
MAE WEST
I believe in censorship. After all, I made a fortune out of it.
MAE WEST
Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.
MAE WEST
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him two--that's subtraction.
MAE WEST
I'm tired, send one of them home
MAE WEST
Give a man a free hand and he'll try to put it all over you.
MAE WEST
Do not marry a man to reform him. That is what reform schools are for.
MAE WEST
Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before.
MAE WEST
I can always tell a lady when I see one. Yeah? What do you tell 'em?
MAE WEST
I always say, keep a diary, and some day it'll keep you.
MAE WEST
No gold-digging for me... I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.
MAE WEST
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
MAE WEST
I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
MAE WEST
Don't come crawlin' to a man for love--he likes to get a run for his money.
MAE WEST
A man's kiss is his signature.
MAE WEST
Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
MAE WEST
I've been rich and I've been poor. Believe me, rich is better.
MAE WEST
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.
MAE WEST
The score never interested me, only the game.
MAE WEST
The curve is more powerful than the sword.
MAE WEST
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
MAE WEST
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
MAE WEST
He who hesitates is last
MAE WEST
Experience is by far the best teacher. You know, ever since I was a little girl I knew that if you l...
MAE WEST
I take it out in the open and laugh at it.
MAE WEST