I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
Mae West
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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
A hard man is good to find.
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
A man's kiss is his signature.
An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.
Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?
I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.
I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.
Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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.
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
Sex is emotion in motion.
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
To err is human, but it feels divine.
Too much of a good thing can be taxing.
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
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