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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Quotes by Marlene Dietrich
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It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.
The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
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.
Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.
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.
Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.
I am at heart a gentleman.
Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
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.
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.
In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.
When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.
Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
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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