Marlene Dietrich

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.

I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.

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

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.

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 no move made, until “a nice cup of tea” is quickly made.

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.

Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs.

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

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him.

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

To lose your prejudices you must travel.