Mae West Quotations:

Famous Words from an American Actress, Writer, and Sex Symbol

Mae West quotations that continue to entertain and amuse us all.

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

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

I'm single because I was born that way.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Sex is emotion in motion.

Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.

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.

I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself.

We're intellectual opposites. I'm intellectual, and you're opposite.

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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

I once was so poor I didn't know where my next husband was coming from.

Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.

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

Curve: the loveliest distance between two points.

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

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

He who hesitates is last.

I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.

Men like women with a past - because they hope history will repeat itself.

Mae West

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