15 Quotes By 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 on change

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

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.
Marlene Dietrich on death

Grumbling is the death of love.
Marlene Dietrich on death

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

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

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

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 on home

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 on love

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

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

I never enjoyed working in a film.
Marlene Dietrich on movies

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 on respect

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

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 on women