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The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood.
Mae West
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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
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Mary Jane West
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More quotes by Mae West
I always did like a man in uniform. And that one fits you grand. Why don't you come up sometime and see me?
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I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
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Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.
Mae West
I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
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The best way to behave is to misbehave.
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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.
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You are never too old to become younger!
Mae West
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
Mae West
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.
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Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.
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Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
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Don't ever make the same mistake twice unless it pays.
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All the raves were just words. You don't want to let words confuse you. Words come cheap.
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[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
March isn't the only thing that's in like a lion and out like a lamb.
Mae West
I like a man what takes his time.
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It's not what you say, but how you say it!
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Sometimes I don't drink so the next day I can remember having fun.
Mae West
Diamonds talk, and I can stand listenin' to 'em often.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
Mae West
