Where have all the flowers gone.
Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.
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.
Every human being is in need of talking to somebody. In this country nobody has time. It seems that talking to a friend has gone out of style. Now you have to pay money to go to an analyst.
Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
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.
If there is a supreme being, he’s crazy.
Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
What a man notices first about a woman is whether she notices him.
I never enjoyed working in a film.
The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
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.
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.
I’m worth more dead than alive. Don’t cry for me after I’m gone; cry for me now.
Dietrich would never do that.
When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it.
On Teasing : Teach your teen-age daughters not to tease boys into physical desire. You might save their lives.
The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime.
Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being.
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.