Quotes from Marlene Dietrich

I am at heart a gentleman.

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

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.

Love affairs are the real only education in life.

Lover's words: "How beautiful you are, now that you love me."

I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now.

Habit: Often mistaken for love.

America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul.

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

To lose your prejudices you must travel.

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

I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.

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

It's the friends you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that matter.

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.

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

On Becoming a 'Lady': What every mother wants her daughter to be.

The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.

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

I never enjoyed working in a film.

I am not a myth.

I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.

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

Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.