Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
MARLENE DIETRICHHow 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.
More Marlene Dietrich Quotes
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Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.
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It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
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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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Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties.
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Grumbling is the death of love.
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To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life.
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Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
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I am not a myth.
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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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Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
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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 father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
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Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
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