I am at heart a gentleman.
MARLENE DIETRICHIt’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
More Marlene Dietrich Quotes
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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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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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Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
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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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When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it.
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There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
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I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
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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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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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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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The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties.
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If there is a supreme being, he’s crazy.
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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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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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