Author: Mae West Page 4

No gold-digging for me… I take diamonds!

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

Few men know how to kiss well. Fortunately, I've always had time to teach them.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

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

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

Sex is emotion in motion.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

Beulah, peel me a grape.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

I see you're a man with ideals; I guess I better be going while you've still got them.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

I do all my writing in bed; everybody knows I do my best work there.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

The curve is more powerful than the sword.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

I’m the lady who works at Paramount all day… and Fox all night.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

I’m no angel, but I’ve spread my wings a bit.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

So many men, so little time.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

Two and two is four and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

Sr. Alvarez: Where have I seen your face before?

Cleo Borden: Same place as you see it now.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

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

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

A hard man is good to find.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

Novelties and notions? What kind of notions you got?

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

Don't keep a man guessing too long… he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

Pour him out of here!

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

Wayne Carter: Aren’t you forgetting that you’re married?

Flower Belle: I’m doin’ my best.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

I only have ‘yes’ men around me; who needs ‘no’ men?

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol