Uncanonical List of Mae West Quotes
From Colin Douthwaite <Col...@equinox.gen.nz>
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The Uncanonical List of Mae West Quotes
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Is that a pistol in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
I've been in more laps than a napkin.
Hatcheck girl: "Goodness, that's a beautiful diamond!"
Mae West: "Goodness had nothing to do with it...."
Come up and see me sometime when I've nothing but the wireless on.
It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
To err is human--but it feels divine.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I haven't tried before."
in "Klondike Annie" (1936)
Two much of a good thing can be wonderful.
in Diane Arbus, "Mae West: Emotion in Motion" Show (1965)
I used to be Snow White...but I drifted.
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
One figure can sometimes add up to a lot.
Mae West (1892-1980)
I've been in Who's Who and I know what's what, but this is the
first time I've been in the dictionary.
I always say, keep a diary and some day it'll keep you.
When I'm good, I'm very, very, good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
I feel like a million tonight, but one at a time.
It's not the men in your life who count. It's the life in your men.
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