Marlene Dietrich Quotes, Thoughts and images

Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs.

You can't live without illusions, even if you must fight for them.

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.

To lose your prejudices you must travel.

Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.

Champagne makes you feel like it's Sunday and better days are just around the corner.

I do not think that we have a “right” to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.

What a man notices first about a woman is whether she notices him.

Seeing twilight fall should be prescribed by doctors.

Love for the joy of loving, and not for the offerings of someone else's heart.

Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.

Sex is much better with a woman, but then one can't live with a woman.

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms.

I am at heart a gentleman.

Don't follow it blindly into every dark alley. Always remember that you are not a model or a mannequin for which the fashion is created.

Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

For women, beauty is more important than the mind, because the man is easier to watch than to think.

Love affairs are the real only education in life.

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.

In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.

He is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

Chanel was a workaholic. She must have had a lot to forget.

Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that Mother is there.

When you prostitute yourself, you have to get paid for it.

one should be afraid of life, not of death.

I, personally, liked the legend.

I'm not an actress, I'm a personality.