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“I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Fashion #Men #Dresses
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“Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Passionate #Vow #Proof
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“Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Marriage #Forgiveness #Women
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“Champagne makes you feel like it's Sunday and better days are just around the corner.”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Sunday #Better Days #Champagne
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“H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Opera #Stores #Hardware
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“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Friendship #Best Friend #Cute Relationship
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“Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life.”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Disappointment #Real #Hands
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“Grumbling is the death of love”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Grumbling
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“Love for the joy of loving, and not for the offerings of someone else's heart.”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Love #Heart #Offering
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“Don't follow it blindly into every dark alley. Always remember that you are not a model or a mannequin for which the fashion is created.”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Fashion #Dark #Remember
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“Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Beauty #Beautiful #Legs
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“I am at heart a gentleman.”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Heart #Gentleman
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“Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Men #Tenderness
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“Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you.”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Waiting #Planets #Ufo
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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.”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Beautiful #Women #Average
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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.”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Women #Home #Unmade Beds
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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.”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Funny #Change #Hilarious
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“If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Crazy #Religion #Atheism
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“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.”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Knowing #Way #Kind
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“There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Differences #Earning #Wealth
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“In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Sex #Women #Memorable
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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.”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Inspirational #Leadership #Book
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“The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Strong #Weakness #Weak
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“There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Laughter #Laughing #Remember
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“In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Travel #Home #Confusing
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“Victory is gay only back home. Up front it is joyless.”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Home #Gay #Victory
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“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.”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Love #Men #Long
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“I never enjoyed working in a film.”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Movie #Gambling #Film
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“Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Travel #Women #Latin
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“When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.”
-- Marlene Dietrich
#Death
