I believe that one day the world will judge the witch hunt against homosexuals just as harshly as it judges the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust.
Mae WestWoman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart. Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook.
Mae WestMen? Sure, I've known lots of them. But I never found one I liked well enough to marry. Besides, I've always been busy with my work. Marriage is a career in itself and to make a success of it you've got to keep working at it. So until I can give the.
Mae Westwhat's life good fer anyhow? The minute you crawl into the world for no good reason of yer own, it's got you licked four ways from the ace.
Mae WestYour real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can't ever take that away from you.
Mae WestI'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 WestToo many Broadway actors in motion pictures lost their grip on success--had a feeling that none of it had ever happened on that sun-drenched coast, that the coast itself did not exist, there was no California. It had dropped away like a hasty dream and nothing could ever have been like the things they thought they remembered.
Mae WestMoney is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone.
Mae WestI always did like a man in uniform. And that one fits you grand. Why don't you come up sometime and see me?
Mae WestNever ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls, if he has been out on illegitimate business, it's your own fault.
Mae WestDennis 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 WestOne 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