Mae West Quotes

After I've gone out with a man a few times, he starts to tell me how much he loves me. But how can I know if he really means it? How can I ever be sure?

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

I would never steal another woman's man.

As a woman who experienced infidelity firsthand, I will always advise my girlfriends to only trust their husbands 95 percent and leave 5 percent for human error.

Don't ask me the secret to a good long-term relationship - I have no idea! Honestly, I think it's just luck.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.

The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary - to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship.

If a woman is dishonest, that kills it for me. I can't even talk to her anymore.

I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Being in all of my relationships, I'm even more confused than I've ever been, I don't know if you ever really understand relationships.

In love marriages, you at least know your partner. A known devil is better than an unknown one!

Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married.

Well, if you're suspecting your lover is having an affair, it's definitely devastating. It's really a terrible, terrible feeling because you have no control.

It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.

I really admire people who have long-distance relationships. It's an incredible achievement. I couldn't do it.

It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.'

There are guys you give the benefit of the doubt if they hold you up a little bit longer than normal, and you have that list of guys you kind of know are going to be a problem when you get there. The window of being patient with them is a lot shorter.