Mae West

Mae West

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Mae West, an American actress, is widely remembered for insights that continue to resonate with readers everywhere. Celebrated for portraying sexually confident characters and for her use of double entendres, often delivering her lines in a distinctive contralto voice, Mae West brought that same intensity to the written and spoken word. 37 of Mae West's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Men, Good, Love, Funny, and Women. Among their most shared lines: "A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love."

“A man's kiss is his signature.”

— Mae West

Men

All Quotes by Mae West

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

— Mae West

Love

“Too much of a good thing can be taxing.”

— Mae West

Good

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

— Mae West

Success

“I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.”

— Mae West

Good

“A man's kiss is his signature.”

— Mae West

Men

“One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.”

— Mae West

Work

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

— Mae West

Love

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

— Mae West

Men

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

— Mae West

Art

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

— Mae West

Good

“I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”

— Mae West

Funny

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

— Mae West

Men

“Look your best - who said love is blind?”

— Mae West

Best

“It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.”

— Mae West

Funny

“When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.”

— Mae West

Good

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

— Mae West

Best

“I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.”

— Mae West

Diet

“Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.”

— Mae West

Success

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

— Mae West

Marriage

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

— Mae West

Women