Mae West Quotes - Page 8

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• You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

  Mae West

  Funny, Fashion, Women

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West".

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• Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!

  Mae West

  Men, Jewels, Immortality

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• I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

  Mae West

  Funny, Witty, Women

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• Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

  Mae West

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.

  Mae West

  Marriage, Lying, Sleep

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• ... love is banality to all outsiders.

  Mae West

  Love Is, Outsiders, Banality

  Mae West (1959). “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography”, Chelsea House

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• Just a little sheep dip. Panacea for all stomach ailments.

  Mae West

  Drinking, Sheep, Medicine

  "Fictional character: Cuthbert J. Twillie". "My Little Chickadee", www.imdb.com. 1940.

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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.

  Mae West

  Fashion, Sex, Fun

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• I never set out to make men a career; it just happened that way.

  Mae West

  Men, Careers, Way

  Mae West (1959). “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography”, Chelsea House

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• 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

  Flirting, Men, Uniforms

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• Live close, visit often.

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• Love is the only industry which can't operate on a five-day week.

  Mae West

  Love, Week, Five

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said "I do, and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.

  Mae West

  Husband, Men, Two

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• I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress?

  Mae West

  Sarcastic, Witty, Humorous

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• To her British lover about to climb in bed with 80-something Mae: She said that she hoped soon to be able to say what Paul Revere said - 'The British are coming'. This was the last one-liner Mae ever uttered on film.

  Mae West

  Bed, Able, Lasts

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• Tira: Whatever you're thinkin' you're wrong. I only like him like a brother. You ain't got nothin' to worry about. . . . Say listen you. A better dame than you once called me a liar and they had to sew her up in twelve different places. You're lucky I'm a little more refined than I used to be. And if you was as much a lady as I am, you'd get out of here before I get real sore. Alicia: You haven't a streak of decency in you. Tira: I don't show my good points to strangers. I'll trouble you to scram.

  Mae West

  Brother, Real, Liars

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• Diamonds talk, and I can stand listenin' to 'em often.

  Mae West

  Jewels, Ems, Diamond

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• Beulah, peel me a grape

  Mae West

  Inspiration, Grapes

  'I'm No Angel' (1933 film)

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• He who hesitates is a damned fool.

  Mae West

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• I'm the girl that works at Paramount all day, and Fox all night.

  Mae West

  Girl, Night, Foxes

  "Fictional character: Marlo Manners". "Sextette", www.imdb.com. 1978.

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• Ice is nice at any price.

  Mae West

  Nice, Ice

  Mae West (1959). “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography”, Chelsea House

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• I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.

  Mae West

  Weakness, Lovers, Affair

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

  Mae West

  Thinking, Important, Dignity

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• Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!

  Mae West

  Men, Lap, Napkins

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• Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.

  Mae West

  Girl, Women, Break Even

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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