Marlene Dietrich Quotes - Page 2

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

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.

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

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

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

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

Seeing twilight fall should be prescribed by doctors.

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

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.

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

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.

The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times of sudden horror, tragedy or disaster. The pulse stops apparently, and nothing can be done, and not one move made, until a “nice cup of tea” is quickly made. There is no question that it brings solace and does steady the mind. What a pity all countries are not.

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

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.

one should be afraid of life, not of death.

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life.

Every human being is in need of talking to somebody. In this country nobody has time. It seems that talking to a friend has gone out of style. Now you have to pay money to go to an analyst.

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

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.

He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle; 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.

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

Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid gloves, mentally and physically

Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being.