Top 80 Marlene Dietrich Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Marlene Dietrich

2. “I’m worth more dead than alive. Don’t cry for me after I’m gone; cry for me now.”

— Marlene Dietrich

3. “Morocco: Looks better in films.”

— Marlene Dietrich

4. “I am at heart a gentleman.”

— Marlene Dietrich

5. “Darling, the legs aren’t so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.”

— Marlene Dietrich

6. “Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.”

— Marlene Dietrich

7. “The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.”

— Marlene Dietrich

8. “Grumbling is the death of love.”

— Marlene Dietrich

9. “To lose your prejudices you must travel.”

— Marlene Dietrich

10. “Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.”

— Marlene Dietrich

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11. “Love for the joy of loving, and not for the offerings of someone else’s heart.”

— Marlene Dietrich

12. “When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it.”

— Marlene Dietrich

13. “Dietrich would never do that.”

— Marlene Dietrich

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

— Marlene Dietrich

15. “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 yet – it’s gone.”

— Marlene Dietrich

16. “Habit: Often mistaken for love.”

— Marlene Dietrich

17. “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.”

— Marlene Dietrich

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

— Marlene Dietrich

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

— Marlene Dietrich

20. “Sex is much better with a woman, but then one can’t live with a woman.”

— Marlene Dietrich

21. “For women, beauty is more important than the mind, because the man is easier to watch than to think.”

— Marlene Dietrich

22. “Ich hab’ noch einen Koffer in Berlin.”

— Marlene Dietrich

23. “Chanel was a workaholic. She must have had a lot to forget.”

— Marlene Dietrich

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

— Marlene Dietrich

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25. “Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.”

— Marlene Dietrich

26. “On Teasing : Teach your teen-age daughters not to tease boys into physical desire. You might save their lives.”

— Marlene Dietrich

27. “Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.”

— Marlene Dietrich

28. “You can’t live without illusions, even if you must fight for them.”

— Marlene Dietrich

29. “What remains is solitude.”

— Marlene Dietrich

30. “Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.”

— Marlene Dietrich

31. “I have been photographed to death.”

— Marlene Dietrich

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

— Marlene Dietrich

33. “I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.”

— Marlene Dietrich

34. “Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being.”

— Marlene Dietrich

35. “I’m not an actress, I’m a personality.”

— Marlene Dietrich

36. “Champagne makes you feel like it’s Sunday and better days are just around the corner.”

— Marlene Dietrich

37. “Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.”

— Marlene Dietrich

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

— Marlene Dietrich

39. “Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman’s age, but you can’t fool a flight of stairs.”

— Marlene Dietrich

40. “In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it’s a fact.”

— Marlene Dietrich

41. “In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?”

— Marlene Dietrich

42. “I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.”

— Marlene Dietrich

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

— Marlene Dietrich

44. “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.”

— Marlene Dietrich

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

— Marlene Dietrich

46. “In Europe, it doesn’t matter if you’re a man or a woman – we make love with anyone we find attractive.”

— Marlene Dietrich

47. “There’s something about an American soldier you can’t explain. They’re so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.”

— Marlene Dietrich

48. “Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don’t call us, we’ll call you.”

— Marlene Dietrich

49. “Don’t follow it blindly into every dark alley. Always remember that you are not a model or a mannequin for which the fashion is created.”

— Marlene Dietrich

50. “Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender.”

— Marlene Dietrich