Marlene Dietrich Quotes

There’s something about an American soldier you can’t explain. It's a quality... They’re so grateful, so heartbreakingly grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them. They say thank you for coming, and they really mean it.

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

If God exists, he needs to review his plan.

A king, realizing his incompetence,
can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither.
If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

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

What remains is solitude.

"There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich" Under a picture of a mom holding a baby :-)

The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.

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

I believe it to be far from harmless — the Desire to be beautiful. This is a universal instinct, and it is easy to see how this desire, properly goaded, has every chance of getting out of hand. Once out of hand, it becomes the cause of much unhappiness. The young girl of today is the unhappy victim. I wish I could say the innocent victim — she is almost innocent. But let us take her side; she deserves it.

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

A man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman — any woman — with beautiful legs.

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

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