Darling, the legs aren’t so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
MARLENE DIETRICHThe Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
More Marlene Dietrich Quotes
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The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
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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.
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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.
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I am not a myth.
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Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
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To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life.
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Grumbling is the death of love.
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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.
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In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it’s a fact.
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There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
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The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.
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They want you to bring out your intestines.
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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties.
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Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
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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.
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