There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
—Marlene Dietrich
Topics: Wealth
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 ones you can call up at 4NULL a.m. that really matter.
—Marlene Dietrich
Topics: Friendship
Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich
Topics: Sex
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
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: Quotations, Speaking, Authority
If there is a supreme being, he’s crazy.
—Marlene Dietrich
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
It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
—Marlene Dietrich
Topics: Friendship
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
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
Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
—Marlene Dietrich
Topics: Superstition
Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being.
—Marlene Dietrich
Topics: Logic
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
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
The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
—Marlene Dietrich
Topics: Weakness
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
A new kind of award has been added—the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody’s mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.
—Marlene Dietrich
Grumbling is the death of love.
—Marlene Dietrich
Topics: Self-Pity, Hedonism
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
—Marlene Dietrich
Topics: Forgiveness
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
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
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
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