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Mae West Quotes: 24

  • You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

  • There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.

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

  • I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

  • I'm single because I was born that way.

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

  • It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men.

  • Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

  • I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.

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

  • You are never too old to become younger!

  • He who hesitates is a damned fool.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Goodness had nothing to do with it.

    She Done Him Wrong