Top 200 Mae West Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Beulah, peel me a grape.”

— Mae West

102. “We’re intellectual opposites. Well, I’m intellectual and you’re opposite.”

— Mae West

103. “I’ve been things and seen places.”

— Mae West

104. “Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.”

— Mae West

105. “You may think you’re in love when the passions of sex get hold of you, but if you didn’t love the man before, you won’t love him after. Like him, maybe, but not love him.”

— Mae West

106. “Save a boyfriend for a rainy day – and another, in case it doesn’t rain.”

— Mae West

107. “I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor, and rich is better.”

— Mae West

108. “Woman: You certainly know the way to a man’s heart. Mae West: Funny, too, ’cause I don’t know how to cook.”

— Mae West

109. “Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said “I do, and I also wash and iron them.” I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.”

— Mae West

110. “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.”

— Mae West

111. “Some of the wildest men make the best pets.”

— Mae West

112. “March isn’t the only thing that’s in like a lion and out like a lamb.”

— Mae West

113. “Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I’d have to give it up.”

— Mae West

114. “It’s all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he’s perfect.”

— Mae West

115. “A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty – he has suffered longer.”

— Mae West

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

— Mae West

117. “Never ask a man where he has been.”

— Mae West

118. “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

119. “Love is the only industry which can’t operate on a five-day week.”

— Mae West

120. “I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”

— Mae West

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

— Mae West

122. “One more drink and I’ll be under the host.”

— Mae West

123. “I’ve been in ‘Who’s Who’ and I know what’s what, but it’ll be the first time I ever made the dictionary.”

— Mae West

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

— Mae West

125. “It takes two to get one in trouble.”

— Mae West

126. “Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.”

— Mae West

127. “Men are all alike – except the one you’ve met who’s different.”

— Mae West

128. “I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.”

— Mae West

129. “What’s the good of resisting temptation? There’ll always be more.”

— Mae West

130. “Sometimes it seems to me I’ve known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints.”

— Mae West

131. “It’s easy to get married, but hard to stay that way.”

— Mae West

132. “I see you’re a man with ideals. I better be going before you’ve still got them.”

— Mae West

133. “The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood...”

— Mae West

134. “I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.”

— Mae West

135. “Some women pick men to marry – and others pick them to pieces.”

— Mae West

136. “Poor Mary Ann! She gave the guy an inch and now he thinks he’s a ruler.”

— Mae West

137. “I believe in the single standard – for men and women.”

— Mae West

138. “I never needed Panavision and stereophonic sound to woo the world. I did it in black and white on a screen the size of a postage stamp. Honey, that’s talent.”

— Mae West

139. “I don’t like myself, I’m crazy about myself.”

— Mae West

140. “I always did like a man in uniform. And that one fits you grand. Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?”

— Mae West

141. “I believe that one day the world will judge the witch hunt against homosexuals just as harshly as it judges the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust.”

— Mae West

142. “I made myself platinum, but I was born a dirty blonde.”

— Mae West

143. “Live close, visit often.”

— Mae West

144. “Kiss and make up-but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.”

— Mae West

145. “I’m the kinda girl who works for Paramount by day, and Fox all night.”

— Mae West

146. “Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.”

— Mae West

147. “I like a man what takes his time.”

— Mae West

148. “Hollywood was like a mouse being followed by a cat called television.”

— Mae West

149. “I’m a good woman for a bad man.”

— Mae West

150. “I’d like to see Paris before I die.”

— Mae West