Marlene Dietrich Quotes

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

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

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

Friendship is a precious gift that can't be bought or sold. It's value is greater than mountains made of gold. If you shall ask God for a gift be thankful if he sends not diamonds pearls or riches but the love and trust of friends. It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Being in the depths of sadness is just as important an experience as being exuberantly happy.

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

To lose your prejudices you must travel.

In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive.

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.

Love affairs are the real only education in life.

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.

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

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

I am at heart a gentleman.

Glamour is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way, mentally and physically and in appearance, and that, whatever the occasion or the situation, you are equal to it.

In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?

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

Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender.

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.

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

A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms.

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

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

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