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.
MARLENE DIETRICHLatins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
More Marlene Dietrich Quotes
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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties.
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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.
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I am not a myth.
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When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it.
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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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The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
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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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Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
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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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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 tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
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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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Grumbling is the death of love.
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Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
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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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