Marlene Dietrich Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Marlene Dietrich:
They want you to bring out your intestines.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
I am not a myth.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
I never enjoyed working in a film.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
I am at heart a gentleman.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
Grumbling is the death of love.
~Marlene Dietrich
Link:
Share:
Permalink:
Browse: