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.

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

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

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.