Quote

A good man is hard to find -- but you'll mostly find him asleep.

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
Men
Asleep
Mostly
Find
Hard
Good

More quotes by Mae West

Image
It's not what you say, but how you say it!
Mae West
Image
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
Mae West
Image
There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
Mae West
Image
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
Mae West
Image
An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
Mae West
Image
Tira begins to sing I'm No Angel to him as the screen fades: Baby, I can warm you with this love of mine. I'm No Angel. Aw, let me feel my fingers running through your hair, I can give you kisses. . . .
Mae West
Image
Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!
Mae West
Image
More people saw me than saw Napoleon, Lincoln and Cleopatra. I was better known than Einstein and Picasso. ... I changed the fashion of two continents. The style of the Gay Nineties became the rage ... women were trying to walk and talk like me. Women became more sex-conscious - sex was out in the open and fun.
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
Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening. . . . Come up. I'll tell your fortune. . . . Ah, you can be had.
Mae West
Image
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
Image
Hollywood was like a mouse being followed by a cat called television.
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
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
Mae West
Image
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
Mae West
Image
I like a man what takes his time.
Mae West
Image
A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.
Mae West
Image
Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present
Mae West
Image
Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
Mae West
Image
I'm a good woman for a bad man.
Mae West