“I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.”
— Marlene Dietrich
“Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.”
— Marlene Dietrich
“I never enjoyed working in a film.”
— Marlene Dietrich
“Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.”
— Marlene Dietrich
“Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.”
— Marlene Dietrich
“When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it.”
— Marlene Dietrich
“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
“Grumbling is the death of love.”
— Marlene Dietrich
““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.”
— Marlene Dietrich
“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
“Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.”
— Marlene Dietrich
“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 – it’s gone.”
— Marlene Dietrich
“Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them you are not necessary to anyone.”
— Marlene Dietrich
“It’s the friends you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that matter.”
— Marlene Dietrich
“It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
— Marlene Dietrich
“There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.”
— Marlene Dietrich
“Once a woman has forgiven a man she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.”
— Marlene Dietrich
“Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being.”
— Marlene Dietrich
“Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.”
— Marlene Dietrich
“Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.”
— Marlene Dietrich
“I do not think we have a “right” to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.”
— Marlene Dietrich
“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
“I never enjoyed working in a film.”
– Marlene Dietrich
“I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.”
– Marlene Dietrich
“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
“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
“There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.”
– Marlene Dietrich
“It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
– Marlene Dietrich
“Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.”
– Marlene Dietrich
“Grumbling is the death of love.”
– Marlene Dietrich