Top 200 Mae West Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I always say, keep a diary and someday it’ll keep you.”

— Mae West

52. “A good man is hard to find – but you’ll mostly find him asleep.”

— Mae West

53. “Don’t let a man put anything over on you except an umbrella.”

— Mae West

54. “You gotta get up early in the morning to catch a fox and stay up late at night to get a mink.”

— Mae West

55. “Dating means two things; disillusionment or a racing heart.”

— Mae West

56. “I wrote the story myself. It’s about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.”

— Mae West

57. “If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!”

— Mae West

58. “Money is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone.”

— Mae West

59. “He who hesitates is a damned fool.”

— Mae West

60. “No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.”

— Mae West

61. “Brains are an asset, if you hide them.”

— Mae West

62. “Women want certain things in marriage – the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.”

— Mae West

63. “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.”

— Mae West

64. “He’s the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.”

— Mae West

65. “I’m no model lady. A model’s just an imitation of the real thing.”

— Mae West

66. “When in doubt take a bath.”

— Mae West

67. “Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.”

— Mae West

68. “Dates in Calendar are Closer Than They Appear! Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. Keep a diary, and someday it’ll keep you.”

— Mae West

69. “When women go wrong, men go right after them.”

— Mae West

70. “Come up and see me sometime.”

— Mae West

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

— Mae West

72. “A woman in love can’t be reasonable – or she probably wouldn’t be in love.”

— Mae West

73. “Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present.”

— Mae West

74. “Love thy neighbor – and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.”

— Mae West

75. “I freely chose the kind of life I led because I was convinced that a woman has as much right as a man to live the way she does if she does no actual harm to society.”

— Mae West

76. “His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.”

— Mae West

77. “Give a man a free hand and he’ll run it all over you.”

— Mae West

78. “When you get the personality, you don’t need the nudity.”

— Mae West

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

— Mae West

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

— Mae West

81. “Brains are an asset to the woman in love who’s smart enough to hide ’em.”

— Mae West

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

— Mae West

83. “I have never loved a man as much as I have loved myself.”

— Mae West

84. “The curve is more powerful than the sword.”

— Mae West

85. “I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.”

— Mae West

86. “I like my clothes tight enough to show I’m a woman, but loose enough to show I’m a lady.”

— Mae West

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

— Mae West

88. “Life’s just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.”

— Mae West

89. “It’s hard to find a good man, but it’s good to find a hard one.”

— Mae West

90. “Goodness had nothing to do with it.”

— Mae West

91. “Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you’re heading for a crash. What I’m against is blind flying.”

— Mae West

92. “A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that’s subtraction.”

— Mae West

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

— Mae West

94. “Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost.”

— Mae West

95. “Cultivate your curves – they may be dangerous but they won’t be avoided.”

— Mae West

96. “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 giving them too much of me.”

— Mae West

97. “Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can’t ever take that away from you.”

— Mae West

98. “If you put your foot in it, be sure it’s your best foot.”

— Mae West

99. “Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises.”

— Mae West

100. “A girl in the convertible is worth five in the phone book.”

— Mae West