Quote by Mae West

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

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wro

Summary

This quote describes a person, likely a girl, who achieved success through unconventional or controversial means. Instead of following a traditional path or making morally sound decisions, she took a more questionable route and succeeded nonetheless. It implies that her actions may not have been morally upright or ethically justified, but she managed to climb the ladder of success through a series of improper choices, implying that her success may be tainted or illegitimate.

Topics

Success

By Mae West

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as

There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Management

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy,

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

Life

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)

Children

Keep your sense of humor, my friend if you don't have a sens

Keep your sense of humor, my friend if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.

Funny

I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is on

I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughin

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Oliver Goldsmith

Laughter

Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but w

Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.

Business

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stabi

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Wisdom

To love is not to look at one another, But to look together

To love is not to look at one another, But to look together in the same direction

Antoine De Saint Exupery

Love

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, b

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

Women Vanity Revenge Humorous

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from you

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

Secrets

Whereas during those months of separation time had never gon

Whereas during those months of separation time had never gone quickly enough for their liking and they were wanting to speed its flight, now that they were in sight of the town they would have liked to slow it down and hold each moment in suspense, once the breaks went on and the train was entering the station. For the sensation, confused perhaps, but none the less poingant for that, of all those days and weeks and months of life lost to their love made them vaguely feel they were entitled to some compensation; this present hour of joy should run at half the speed of those long hours of waiting.

Love Anticipation Separation