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Marlene Dietrich

To quote Marlene Dietrich over and over and ...

Submitted by Roanman on Tue, 12/07/2010 - 13:14

 

  “I want to be alone.”

“When you prostitute yourself, you have to get paid for it.”

“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.”

“There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.”

“Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.”

“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than oneself.”

“[The lover says:] How beautiful you are, now that you love me”

“The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs."

“Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him.”

“Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast”

“Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like a silent bird of prey on the edge of your most uncomfortable chair. (He will read them anyway, and he should read them, so let him choose his own good time.) Don't make a big exit. Just go. But kiss him quickly, before you go, otherwise he might think you are angry; he is used to suspecting he is doing something wrong.”

“Grumbling is the death of love.”

“How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police - it's gone.”

“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."

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

“Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.”

“I am at heart a gentleman.”

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

“If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.”

 

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