Quote

Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.

Mae West

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
Actor
Actress
Autobiographer
Comedian
Film Actor
Playwright
Screenwriter
Singer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Mary Jane West
Jane West
Ever
Hobby
Giving
Hobbies
Men
Sarcastic
Witty
Humorous
Married
Marriage
Give
Risque

More quotes by Mae West

Image
His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
Mae West
Image
I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.
Mae West
Image
Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.
Mae West
Image
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
Mae West
Image
[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more.
Mae West
Image
Live close, visit often.
Mae West
Image
Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!
Mae West
Image
I consider sex a misdemeanor, the more I miss, de meaner I get.
Mae West
Image
Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!
Mae West
Image
Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls, if he has been out on illegitimate business, it's your own fault.
Mae West
Image
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
Mae West
Image
Dating means two things disillusionment or a racing heart.
Mae West
Image
It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
Mae West
Image
Kiss and make up-but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
Mae West
Image
All the raves were just words. You don't want to let words confuse you. Words come cheap.
Mae West
Image
I believe in the single standard -- for men and women.
Mae West
Image
I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary.
Mae West
Image
Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home)
Mae West
Image
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
Mae West
Image
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!' 'Goodness had nothing to do with it'.
Mae West