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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
“Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.”
“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”
“I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.”
“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”
“The score never interested me, only the game.”
“It is better to be looked over than overlooked.”
“Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.”
“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
“To err is human, but it feels divine.”
“I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.”
“It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.”
“I speak two languages, Body and English.”
“A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.”
“Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.”
“Between two evils, I always picked the one I never tried before.”
“Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.”
“A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.”
“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.”
“When women go wrong, men go right after them.”
“When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.”
“Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.”
“Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.”
“I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.”
“I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.”
“When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.”
“I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.”
“Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.”
“I've been in more laps than a napkin.”
“I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.”
“Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.”
“Goodness had nothing to do with it.”
“Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.”
“He who hesitates is a damned fool.”
“You are never too old to become younger!”
“It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.”
“Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.”
“Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.”
“Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.”
“Too much of a good thing can be taxing.”
“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.”
“A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.”
“She's the kind of woman who climbed the ladder of success, wrong by wrong.”
“I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.”
“His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.”
“Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.”
“If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.”
“Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.”