Mae West

“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.”

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

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

“A hard man is good to find.”

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

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

“Tu vivi solo una volta, ma se lo fai bene, una volta è abbastanza.”

“A me piacciono solo due tipi di uomini: gli stranieri e quelli del mio Paese.”

“You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.”

“I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.”

“I saw what a mess a lot of people could make of their lives when they're smitten. Some of them go temporarily insane. They find a person who they think holds the key to their happiness-the only key to their happiness... My work has always been my greatest happiness”

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

“A man’s kiss is his signature.”

“I never loved another person the way I loved myself.”

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

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

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

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

“I've been in more laps than a napkin.”

“You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.”

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

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

“Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?”

“I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress? ”

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

“All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.”

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

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

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

“Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.”

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

“Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!' 'Goodness had nothing to do with it'.”

“Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.”

“Goodness had nothing to do with it.”

“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”

“An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.”

“Errar es humano, pero se siente divino.”

“The score never interested me, only the game.”

“The curve is more powerful than the sword.”

“Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.”

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

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

“A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.”

“He who hesitates is a damned fool.”

“Love is like a booger, you pick and pick at it. Then when you get it you wonder how to get rid of it.”

“JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court?MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it.”

“Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else”

“I'm single because I was born that way.”

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

“I've been things and seen places.”