Marlene Dietrich Quotes

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

~ Marlene Dietrich

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

~ Marlene Dietrich

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

~ Marlene Dietrich

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

~ Marlene Dietrich

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

~ Marlene Dietrich

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

~ Marlene Dietrich

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

~ Marlene Dietrich

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

Grumbling is the death of love.

~ Marlene Dietrich

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

Grumbling is the death of love.

~ Marlene Dietrich

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

~ Marlene Dietrich

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

~ Marlene Dietrich

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

~ Marlene Dietrich

I never enjoyed working in a film.

~ Marlene Dietrich

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

~ Marlene Dietrich

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

~ Marlene Dietrich

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

~ Marlene Dietrich

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.

~ Marlene Dietrich

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