Marlene Dietrich Quotes

H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

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

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

Dahlink, the legs aren't so beautiful. I just know what to do with them.

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.

It is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed by someone wiser than oneself.

You're never lonely with a book.

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

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

The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.

Ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin.

America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German – German in my soul.

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.

Quotations: I love them because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizedly wiser than oneself.