Quotes By Mae West

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

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

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

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

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

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 it and say it.

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

To err is human, but it feels divine.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

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

Sex is emotion in motion.

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

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

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.

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

I'd like to see Paris before I die. Philadelphia will do.

It takes two to get one in trouble.

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

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

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.