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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Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
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It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
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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 dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
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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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The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
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Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
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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 tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
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Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
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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 never enjoyed working in a film.
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There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
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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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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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Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
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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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Glamour is what I sell, it’s my stock in trade.
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Grumbling is the death of love.
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Darling, the legs aren’t so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
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In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it’s a fact.
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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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To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life.
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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties.
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