Mae West on character
Mae West100 quotes“A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty – he has suffered longer.”
More from Mae West
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Mae WestMae West No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.
Mae WestMae West Love isn’t an emotion or an instinct – it’s an art.
Mae WestMae West I speak two languages, Body and English.
Mae WestMae West Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I’d have to give it up.
Mae WestMae West Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can’t ever take that away from you.
Mae WestMae West Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.
Mae WestMae West I wrote the story myself. It’s about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.
Mae WestMae West I freely chose the kind of life I led because I was convinced that a woman has as much right as a man to live the way she does if she does no actual harm to society.
Mae WestMae West I have found men who didn’t know how to kiss. I’ve always found time to teach them.
Mae WestMae West I consider sex a misdemeanor, the more I miss, de meaner I get.
Mae WestMae West I don’t like myself, I’m crazy about myself.
Mae WestMae West There are no good girls gone wrong – just bad girls found out.
Mae WestMae West Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love–that’s not so bad either.
Mae WestMae West Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.
Mae WestMae West I’m no angel, but I’ve spread my wings a bit.
Mae WestMae West
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In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
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Krishan PandeyKrishan Pandey I will wait, I am waiting, and I will love you with all the love I posses until this body is ash and I begin my search for you again.
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson Nothing is permanent not even your pain.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Do not insist me to let you go, you come half hearted like a crescent moon, and you go heart-filled like a full moon which glows.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
Natalie MooneyNatalie Mooney
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More on character
I try to put all those positive things into a regular human character, which is myself.
J. ColeJ. Cole Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
Anne FrankAnne Frank Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Character is simply habit long continued.
PlatoPlato An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
Ayn RandAyn Rand It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark TwainMark Twain I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can’t or don’t do in my normal everyday life.
Leonardo DiCaprioLeonardo DiCaprio
