Quotes by Mae West

"Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often."

"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."

"An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises."

"Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign."

"When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better."

"Too much of a good thing can be wonderful."

"I used to be Snow White, but I drifted."

"I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them."

"Sex is emotion in motion."

"It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men."

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

"Too much of a good thing can be taxing."

"Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain."

"The best way to hold a man is in your arms."

"Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly."

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

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

"I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported."

"I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?"

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

"A man's kiss is his signature."

"Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache."

"A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love."

"Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier."

"Look your best - who said love is blind?"

"Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art."

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

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

"He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of."

"When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better."

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

"A hard man is good to find."

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

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

"Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up."

"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."

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

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

"When women go wrong, men go right after them."

"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."

"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."

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

"One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it."

"To err is human, but it feels divine."

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

"She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong."

"I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it."