Quotes by Marlene Dietrich

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.

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

I never enjoyed working in a film.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Grumbling is the death of love.