Witty Ms Mae West
Mae West Lips Sofa, designed by Dali
1937
Mae West, a Hollywood actress was known for her one liner rather bawdy double entendres.
Here are some of her gems:
A hard man is good to find.
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A woman in love can’t be reasonable – or she probably wouldn’t be in love.
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A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that’s subtraction.
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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A man’s kiss is his signature.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
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Don’t marry a man to reform him – that’s what reform schools are for.
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Give a man a free hand and he’ll try to put it all over you.
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—Mae West
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He’s the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
– Mae West
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I’m single because I was born that way.
– Mae West
I am the girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.
– Mae West
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Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.
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I believe that it’s better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.
– Mae West
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I’ve been things and seen places.
– Mae West
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If you want a committed man, look in a mental hospital.
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If I ask for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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I only like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
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I only have “yes” men around me. Who needs “no” men?
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I used to be Snow White … but I drifted.
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It’s not the men in my life that counts – it’s the life in my men.
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Let’s forget the six feet and talk about the seven inches.
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
– Mae West
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Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.
– Mae West
One plus one is two. Two plus two is four. But five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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Personality is the most important thing to an actress’s success. Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
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People are divided into the goods and the bads. The thing is not to be caught with the goods.
- Mae West
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There are two things in life I like firm, and one of them is jelly.
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The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
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When women go wrong, men go right after them.
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When I am good I’m very, very good, but when I’m bad I’m better.
