Best 78 quotes of Marlene Dietrich on MyQuotes

A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Champagne makes you feel like it's Sunday and better days are just around the corner.

Chanel was a workaholic. She must have had a lot to forget.

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

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.

Don't follow it blindly into every dark alley. Always remember that you are not a model or a mannequin for which the fashion is created.

Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.

Every human being is in need of talking to somebody. In this country nobody has time. It seems that talking to a friend has gone out of style. Now you have to pay money to go to an analyst.

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

Friendship is a precious gift that can't be bought or sold. It's value is greater than mountains made of gold. If you shall ask God for a gift be thankful if he sends not diamonds pearls or riches but the love and trust of friends. It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

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

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.

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

Grumbling is the death of love

Habit: Often mistaken for love.

He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

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.

I am at heart a gentleman.

I do not think that we have a “right” to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.

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

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.

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

In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.

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.

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

I, personally, liked the legend.

...it gives you the impression that every day is Sunday.

It is my private life which no one knows anything about, nor ever will. It needs more than half my time if it is to be a success.

It's the friend you call up at four o'clock in the morning that really matters.

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.

Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical cook. She isn't.

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

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

Love affairs are the real only education in life.

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

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

Morocco: Looks better in films.

Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life.

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

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

one should be afraid of life, not of death.