Great quotes

"People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own."

"They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning."

"I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."

"I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. They wake up in the morning and that’s the best they are going to feel all day."

"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault."

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch."

"When you enjoy something, you must never let logic get too much in the way. Like the villains in all the James Bond movies. Whenever Bond breaks into the complex: 'Ah, Mr. Bond, welcome, come in. Let me show you my entire evil plan and then put you in a death machine that doesn't work'."

“I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.”

(During a trial in which she was accused of indecency on stage)
Judge: 'Miss West, are you trying to show contempt for this court?'
Mae West: 'On the contrary, your Honor, I was doin' my best to conceal it.'

"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

"I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue."

"Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find some woman I really don’t like and just give her a house."

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."

"I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally."

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."

"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known."

"If it turns out there is a God, I don't think he's evil. The worst you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."

"I'm not affraid of dying. I just don't want to be there when it happens"