A man in love is like a clipped coupon–it’s time to cash in.
Mae West
- Life
- 1893-1980
- Occupations
- playwright, television actor, film actor
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
Mae West
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Mae West
He who hesitates is last.
Mae West
I believe in the single standard for men and women.
Mae West
I believe that it’s better to be looked over than to be overlooked.
Mae West
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Mae West
It’s hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
Mae West
It’s not the men in my life that count – it’s the life in my men.
Mae West
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
Mae West
Personality is the glitter that sends your gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
Mae West
She's the kind of girl who climed the ladder of success, wrong by wrong.
Mae West
There are no good girls gone wrong, just bad girls found out.
Mae West
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
Mae West
When I'm good, I'm good, but when I'm bad I'm better.
Mae West
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
Mae West