Quotes by Marlene Dietrich

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

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

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

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

“Grumbling is the death of love.”

“When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.”

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

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

“I never enjoyed working in a film.”

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

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

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

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

“A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.”

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

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

“It's the friends you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that matter.”

“Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them you are not necessary to anyone.”

“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.”

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