I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I am at heart a gentleman.

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.

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.

Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.

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.

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.

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

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

If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.

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

They want you to bring out your intestines.

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now.

I am not a myth.

The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.

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

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

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.

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

The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.

Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.

I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.

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 yet - it's gone.

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

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

I never enjoyed working in a film.

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

Grumbling is the death of love.

The lover says How beautiful you are now that you love me.

Champagne makes you feel like its Sunday and better days are just around the corner.

Its the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

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 delimma.

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.

How do you know that love is gone? If you said you would be there by seven, you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet—it’s gone.

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

Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that Mother is there.

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

Seeing twilight fall should be prescribed by doctors.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.