Imelda Marcos Quotes

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

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.

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

The best compliment I ever got in my life came from Chairman Mao of China. When I went there, at a time when nobody wanted to touch China with a 10-foot pole, Mao told me that I'm beautiful because I'm a natural, and he said natural is perfection. So, no character assassination can diminish me and my perfection.

I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act.

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

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.

President Marcos was investing in precious metals long before he entered politics.

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

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.

I would have to ask the public to choose between a culture of hate or a culture of love. I am sure our poor will pick the latter. With the Marcos assets, we could regain this value of sharing love with one another.

The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.

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.

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