Marlene Dietrich

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

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

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

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

I never enjoyed working in a film.

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

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

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

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.

Grumbling is the death of love.

"Glamour" is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way mentally and physically and in appearance and that whatever the occasion or the situation you are equal to it.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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