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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
There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
Mae West
No gold-digging for me I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.
Mae West
Don't forget honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em.
Mae West
I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.
Mae West
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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?
Mae West
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!' 'Goodness had nothing to do with it'.
Mae West
How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches!
Mae West
One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
Mae West
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
Mae West
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
Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost.
Mae West
Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.
Mae West
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
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
Mae West
Don't come crawlin' to a man for love-he likes to get a run for his money.
Mae West
Too many girls follow the line of least resistance, but a good line is hard to resist.
Mae West
I believe in the single standard -- for men and women.
Mae West
When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?
Mae West
I like a man what takes his time.
Mae West
