Mae West

Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

Mae West

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.

Mae West

Poor Mary Ann! She gave the guy an inch and now he thinks he’s a ruler.

Mae West

Reason was nowhere, time was an immovable object nailed high on the wall, except where the world kept shop.

Mae West

Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

Mae West

Some of the wildest men make the best pets.

Mae West

Sometimes I don’t drink so the next day I can remember having fun.

Mae West

Sometimes it seems to me I’ve known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints.

Mae West

The best way to behave is to misbehave.

Mae West

The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

Mae West