It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
– Marlene Dietrich
Femininity: Woman’s greatest asset. Her own magnetic field into which the man is drawn.
– Marlene Dietrich
Arrogance: On some people it looks good.
– Marlene Dietrich
Forgiveness: Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
– Marlene Dietrich
Harmony: I need harmony around me more than food, drink, and sleep.
– Marlene Dietrich
Quotations: I love them because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully
expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than yourself.
– Marlene Dietrich
Manners: Good manners – know your place. Bad manners – meddle.
– Marlene Dietrich
White bread: I cringe every time I see a child eating a sandwich made out of American white
bread. Give them whole wheat or rye if you love them.
– Marlene Dietrich
Cavalier: A species that is dying out.
– Marlene Dietrich
Jeans: Sometimes I like entire towns or places just because I don’t ever have to get out of my jeans.
– Marlene Dietrich
Vices: What other people have.
– Marlene Dietrich
I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
– Marlene Dietrich
Optimism: Have it. There is always time to cry later.
– Marlene Dietrich
Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
– Marlene Dietrich
Habit: Often mistaken for love.
– Marlene Dietrich
Mother: More solid than the ground under your feet when you are little, more solid than rock
when you need to lean, harder than rock when the learning becomes a danger – when it’s
time for you to walk alone.
– Marlene Dietrich
Tolerance: Teach it to your children. It is most important to the saving of their souls.
– Marlene Dietrich
Stupidity: The only defect with which I can lose my patience.
– 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
Peace: Why does it elude us so frequently, when it is so sincerely desired?
– Marlene Dietrich
A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms.
– Marlene Dietrich
Gossip: Nobody will tell you gossip if you don’t listen.
– Marlene Dietrich
Unmade bed: A man would rather come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to
a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
– Marlene Dietrich
Sex is much better with a woman, but then one can’t live with a woman.
– Marlene Dietrich
Kisses: Don’t waste them. But don’t count them.
– Marlene Dietrich
Patience: Patience can become second nature, if taught early enough. One of those gifts to
your children for which you will be hated first and loved later.
– Marlene Dietrich
Negligence: Unforgivable.
– Marlene Dietrich
Jealousy: An uncontrollable passion, the Siamese twin of love.
– Marlene Dietrich
Glamour is what I sell, it’s my stock in trade.
– Marlene Dietrich
Xmas: An abbreviation which should be forbidden by the police.
– Marlene Dietrich
Tact: There are people who have a natural built-in tact of the heart. If you know one, treat
him gently; they are hard to come by. But tact can be taught; best when we are young, and
not by words but by example.
– Marlene Dietrich
Grumbling is the death of love.
– Marlene Dietrich
In Europe, it doesn’t matter if you’re a man or a woman – we make love with anyone we find
attractive.
– Marlene Dietrich