136 Quotes by Marlene Dietrich

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

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. There is no question that it brings solace and does steady the mind. What a pity all countries are not so tea-conscious. World-peace conferences would run more smoothly if "a nice cup of tea", or indeed, a samovar were available at the proper time.

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

In Europe, it doesn’t matter if you’re a man or a woman – we make love with anyone we find attractive.

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

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

The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime.

H is for Hardware store: I’d rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

Grumbling is the death of love.