Marlene Dietrich Quotes

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

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

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

It's the friends you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that matter.

Once a woman has forgiven a man she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

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.

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

Grumbling is the death of love.

Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being.

Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.

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.

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 - it's gone.

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

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.