Mae West Quotes

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

Never mind about the six feet. Let’s talk about the seven inches.

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

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

Sex is emotion in motion.

Love isn’t an emotion or an instinct – it’s an art.

His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

He’s the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I’m tired.

I like a man who’s good, but not too good – for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.

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

Well behaved women do not make history.