Marlene Dietrich Zitate

„Die Männer beteuern immer, sie lieben die innere Schönheit der Frau - komischerweise gucken sie aber ganz woanders hin.“

„Ich kleide mich für mein Image. Nicht für mich selbst, nicht für die Öffentlichkeit, nicht für die Mode, nicht für die Männer.“

„In den USA ist Sex eine Obsession, im Rest der Welt ist es ein Faktum.“

„Es ist vernünftiger, vor dem Leben Angst zu haben und nicht vor dem Tod.“

„Wenn ich mein Leben noch einmal Leben könnte, würde ich die gleichen Fehler machen. Aber ein bisschen früher, damit ich mehr davon habe.“

„Fast jede Frau wäre gern treu. Schwierig ist es bloß, den Mann zu finden, dem man treu sein kann.“

„Die meisten Frauen setzen alles daran, einen Mann zu ändern, und wenn sie ihn dann geändert haben, mögen sie ihn nicht mehr.“

„Wenn man schöne Beine haben will, muss man sie von den Blicken der Männer massieren lassen.“

„Wenn man einem Mann den kleinen Finger reicht, bietet er seine ganze Hand.“

„Selten ist ein Mann so gut gelaunt wie dann, wenn er von sich selbst erzählt.“

„Wie sollte mein Herz zerreißen, als Hamburg bombardiert wurde, wenn es doch schon zerrissen war, als die Bomben auf London fielen.“

„Wenn zwei Frauen nebeneinander sitzen, zieht es.“

„Ein hübsches Kompliment ist wie ein Sandwich: zwischen zwei Alltäglichkeiten etwas Besonderes.“

„Die Freunde, die man um vier Uhr morgens anrufen kann, die zählen.“

„Glamour ist das, was ich verkaufe, es ist meine Handelsware.“

„Die Arbeit beim Film war für mich nie ein Vergnügen.“

„Liebling, die Beine sind nicht so schön - ich weiß nur, was man mit ihnen macht.“

„Der Durchschnittsmann ist mehr an einer Frau interessiert, die sich für ihn interessiert, als an einer Frau mit langen Beinen.“

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times of sudden horror, tragedy or disaster. The pulse stops apparently, and nothing can be done, and not one move made, until a “nice cup of tea” is quickly made. There is no question that it brings solace and does steady the mind. What a pity all countries are not.”

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

“To lose your prejudices you must travel.”

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

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

“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.”

“America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German – German in my soul.”

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

“The legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.”

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

“What a man notices first about a woman is whether she notices him.”

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

“I am at heart a gentleman.”

“Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.”

“Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Friendship is a precious gift that can't be bought or sold. It's value is greater than mountains made of gold. If you shall ask God for a gift be thankful if he sends not diamonds pearls or riches but the love and trust of friends. It is the friends you can call up at 4 a. m. that matter.”

“Jungs! Opfert euch nicht! Der krieg ist doch scheiße, Hitler ist ein idiot! (message in a pro-allied propaganda broadcast) Translation: Boy! Do not sacrifice yourself! The war is but shit, Hitler is an idiot!”

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