Mae West Quotes

Men are like linoleum floors. Lay ’em right and you can walk all over them for years.

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

I’m a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

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

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

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

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

Don’t keep a man guessing too long – he’s sure to find the answer somewhere else.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

To err is human, but it feels divine.

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

His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.

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.

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

I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.

The best way to behave is to misbehave.

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