Mae West

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.

— Mae West

Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before.

— Mae West

You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

— Mae West

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

— Mae West

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

— Mae West

When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.

— Mae West

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

— Mae West

It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

— Mae West

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

— Mae West

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

— Mae West

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

— Mae West

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

— Mae West

I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.

— Mae West

I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.

— Mae West

Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.

— Mae West

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

— Mae West

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.

— Mae West

When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.

— Mae West

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

— Mae West

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

— Mae West

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

— Mae West

He who hesitates is last.

— Mae West

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

— Mae West

I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.

— Mae West

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

— Mae West

Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office.

— Mae West

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

— Mae West

It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.

— Mae West

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

— Mae West

Why don't you come up and see me sometime? Come up on Wednesday, that's amateur night.

— Mae West

A man in the house is worth two in the street.

— Mae West

I’ve made it my business to make business my business.

— Mae West

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

— Mae West

It ain’t no sin if you crack a few laws now and then just so long as you don’t break any.

— Mae West

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

— Mae West

I’ve always had a weakness for foreign affairs.

— Mae West

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

— Mae West