Mae West Men Quotations

I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction.

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.

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

Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!

Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.

Men? Sure, I've known lots of them. But I never found one I liked well enough to marry. Besides, I've always been busy with my work. Marriage is a career in itself and to make a success of it you've got to keep working at it. So until I can give the.

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

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.

Some of the wildest men make the best pets.

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

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.

Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.

Don't come crawlin' to a man for love-he likes to get a run for his money.

It's hard to find a good man, but it's good to find a hard one.

Never ask a man where he has been.

I never set out to make men a career; it just happened that way.

I don't know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man when I see one.

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.

A man's kiss is his signature.

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

Men are all alike - except the one you've met who's different.

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

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Give a man free hands, and you'll know where to find them.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon - it's time to cash in.

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.

The best way to behave is to misbehave.

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

Don't let a man put anything over on you except an umbrella.

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

A good man is hard to find -- but you'll mostly find him asleep.

I'm a good woman for a bad man.

I like a man what takes his time.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

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

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

Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.

Don't forget honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em.

For a long time I was ashamed of the way I lived. Did I reform, you ask? No. I'm not ashamed anymore.

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

I have never loved a man as much as I have loved myself

I've always taken men just as I found 'em, and thank heavens I've been able to find 'em.

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

Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

Men are my life, diamonds are my career.

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

Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!

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

I know so much about men because I went to night school.

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

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.

men are not realists - only women are.

Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.

He's the kind of man who picks his friends - to pieces.

Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls, if he has been out on illegitimate business, it's your own fault.

I believe in the single standard -- for men and women.

Brains are an asset to the woman in love who's smart enough to hide 'em.

Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.

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

One more drink and I'll be under the host.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

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