Mae West

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

"Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie."

"Why don't you come up sometime and see me? … Come on up, I'll tell your fortune."

"Oh, Beulah, Peel me a grape."

"I only like two kinds of men, domestic and foreign."

"When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad, I'm better."

"It's not the men in your life that count, it's the life in your men."

"When women go wrong, men go right after them."

"A man in the house is worth two in the street."

"When I'm caught between two evils, I generally like to take the one I never tried."

"You ought to get out of those wet clothes and into a dry martini."

"You take one thing and add it to another and you get two. Two and two is four; and five'll get you ten if you know how to work it!"

"I used to be Snow White, but I drifted."

"I'm the kinda girl who works for Paramount by day, and Fox all night"

"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."

"Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"

"When you got the personality, you don't need the nudity."

"Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution."

"Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you."

"I've been in more laps than a napkin."

"She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong."

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

"Wenn ich zwischen zwei Übeln entscheiden muss, wähle ich das, was ich noch nicht ausprobiert habe."