You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it’s no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
MARLENE DIETRICHThe weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
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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Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
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Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
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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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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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I am at heart a gentleman.
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Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
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When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it.
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In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it’s a fact.
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To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life.
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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.
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Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
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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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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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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties.
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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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They want you to bring out your intestines.
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Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
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Darling, the legs aren’t so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
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Glamour is what I sell, it’s my stock in trade.
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A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
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The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
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It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
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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.
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I never enjoyed working in a film.
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