Quotes from Marlene Dietrich

Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.

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

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.

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.

"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.

I have been photographed to death.

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

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

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.

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

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

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

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

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

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

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.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than oneself.

If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.

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.

Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl.

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

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.