Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich
Topics: Sex
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
—Marlene Dietrich
Topics: Forgiveness
If there is a supreme being, he’s crazy.
—Marlene Dietrich
Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
—Marlene Dietrich
Topics: Grace, Hunting
It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
—Marlene Dietrich
Topics: Friendship
Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being.
—Marlene Dietrich
Topics: Logic
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
Topics: Confidence, Assurance
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
—Marlene Dietrich
Topics: Wealth
There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.
—Marlene Dietrich
Topics: Laughter
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
Topics: Men & Women, Men, Women
Grumbling is the death of love.
—Marlene Dietrich
Topics: Hedonism, Self-Pity
Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
—Marlene Dietrich
Topics: Superstition
The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.
—Marlene Dietrich
Topics: Women, Men
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.
—Marlene Dietrich
Sleeping alone, except under doctor’s orders, does much harm. Children will tell you how lonely it is sleeping alone. If possible, you should always sleep with someone you love. You both recharge your mutual batteries free of charge.
—Marlene Dietrich
Topics: Sleep
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
Topics: Marriage, Wives
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.
—Marlene Dietrich
Topics: Speaking, Quotations, Authority
Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like a silent bird of prey on the edge of your most uncomfortable chair. (He will read them anyway, and he should read them, so let him choose his own good time.) Don’t make a big exit. Just go. But kiss him quickly, before you go, otherwise he might think you are angry; he is used to suspecting he is doing something wrong.
—Marlene Dietrich
Topics: Marriage, Husbands
It’s the ones you can call up at 4NULL a.m. that really matter.
—Marlene Dietrich
Topics: Friendship
The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
—Marlene Dietrich
Topics: Weakness
Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl.
—Marlene Dietrich
Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don’t call us, we’ll call you.
—Marlene Dietrich
Topics: Space
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