A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties.
MARLENE DIETRICHThere’s something about an American soldier you can’t explain. They’re so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.
More Marlene Dietrich Quotes
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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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The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
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I’m worth more dead than alive. Don’t cry for me after I’m gone; cry for me now.
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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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Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
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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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Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
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I am at heart a gentleman.
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When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it.
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Glamour is what I sell, it’s my stock in trade.
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I am not a myth.
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Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
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Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
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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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