I scanned the Net in search of quotations from good old, bad Mae, and this is the result of my work.

Ya know, it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

To err is human, but it feels divine.

Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.

Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

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

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Men? Sure, I've known lots of them. But I never found one I liked well enough to marry. Besides, I've always been busy with my work. Marriage is a career in itself and to make a success of it you've got to keep working at it. So until I can give the proper amount of time to marriage, I'll stay single.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

Cary Grant: "Haven't you ever met a man who could make you happy?"
MW: "Sure, lots of times."

So many men, so little time.

It's not the men in my life; it's the life in my men.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

I only like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.

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

I've been in more laps than a napkin.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

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

Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Once, during a trial in which she was accused of indecency on stage, the judge asked, "Miss West, are you trying to show contempt for this court?" She answered, "On the contrary, your Honor, I was doin' my best to conceal it."

I've been rich and I've been poor. Believe me, rich is better.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then. As long as you don't break any.

When I'm good, I'm good. When I'm bad, I'm very good.

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

A man in love is like a clipped coupon--it's time to cash in.

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

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

He who hesitates is last.

I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.

I believe in the single standard for men and women.

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let 'em wonder. I never believed in givin' them too much of me.

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.

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

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

There are no good girls gone wrong, just bad girls found out.

When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

When I'm good, I'm good, but when I'm bad I'm better.