Imelda Marcos Quotes

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

I'm like Robin Hood. I rob the rich to make these projects come alive... not really rob. It's done with a smile.

They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.

I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance.

I seem to be able to only see the positive things in life and the beautiful things in life and when I see, for instance, garbage or ugliness, then I turn my back or I seem to be able to skip it.

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.

Funny, I never shopped. Even my jewelry — not a piece of my jewelry I bought for me.

My grandchildren are growing up and they could not understand why the Marcoses are still being crucified although we keep on telling them that we did not steal from the Filipino people.

It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some effort. And unfortunately people think of beauty as luxury, beauty as frivolity, ... or extravagance. Beauty is a discipline, beauty is art, is harmony, in the ideological sense and in the theological sense, beauty is God and love made real. And the ultimate reach in this world is beauty.

Thank God I never lost that childlike innocence and the purity of vision and naivete. …That childlike innocence was most useful, because if I was a bit wiser, I wouldn't have been able to do anything, perhaps. So I'm glad I was not smart.

We never had such a violation of human rights. In fact, we have had no human rights case here in the Philippines, even to this day.

When you reach a certain level of leadership, people cannot be neutral with you. They either love, love, love you, or hate, hate, hate you.

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use Imeldific to mean ostentatious extravagance.

Diligence, hard work, foresight, entrepreneurship and God's blessing.