Marlene Dietrich

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

— Marlene Dietrich

#call #friends #matter #up #you

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. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#beautifully #because #expressed #find #i

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

— Marlene Dietrich

#change #changed #him #like #man

In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#morality #obsession #prudishness #puritanism #sexuality

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

— Marlene Dietrich

#courage #grace #courage

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

#could #delegate #dilemma #duties #either

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#make #more #strong #than #weak

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. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#bed #come #happy #home #made

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

— Marlene Dietrich

#dead #you

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#habits #rather #superstitions #than