“A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties.”

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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

They want you to bring out your intestines.

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.

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

Grumbling is the death of love.

I am at heart a gentleman.

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.

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

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

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

When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it.

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.

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

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.

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