Marlene Dietrich Quotes

“In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive.”

“Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.”

“The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.”

“You can't live without illusions, even if you must fight for them.”

“To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. 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.”

“Quotations: I love them because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizedly wiser than oneself.”

“Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.”

“Love for the joy of loving, and not for the offerings of someone else's heart.”

“Friendship is a precious gift that can't be bought or sold. It's value is greater than mountains made of gold. If you shall ask God for a gift be thankful if he sends not diamonds pearls or riches but the love and trust of friends. It is the friends you can call up at 4 a. m. that matter.”

“The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times of sudden horror, tragedy or disaster. The pulse stops apparently, and nothing can be done, and not one move made, until a “nice cup of tea” is quickly made. There is no question that it brings solace and does steady the mind. What a pity all countries are not.”

“To lose your prejudices you must travel.”

“Forgiveness: Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.”

“The legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.”

“The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.”

“What a man notices first about a woman is whether she notices him.”

“I am at heart a gentleman.”

“Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.”

“Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.”

“I do not think that we have a “right” to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.”

“Glamour is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way, mentally and physically and in appearance, and that, whatever the occasion or the situation, you are equal to it.”

“In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?”

“Jungs! Opfert euch nicht! Der krieg ist doch scheiße, Hitler ist ein idiot! (message in a pro-allied propaganda broadcast) Translation: Boy! Do not sacrifice yourself! The war is but shit, Hitler is an idiot!”