Marlene Dietrich Quotes

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

I, personally, liked the legend.

one should be afraid of life, not of death.

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

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.

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

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

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

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.

Love affairs are the real only education in life.

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

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

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

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

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

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.

I am at heart a gentleman.

A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Seeing twilight fall should be prescribed by doctors.

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

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

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

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

To lose your prejudices you must travel.

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

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

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