Zsa Zsa Gabor

Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.

As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.

When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare.

I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?

Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.

I always liked parties. You meet people; you can have fun.

I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

I like a mannish man: a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman - not just a man with muscles.

I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl-friends upset.

I only cook when I'm in love.

The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.

I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands.

A girl must marry for love - and keep on marrying until she finds it.

I have learned that not diamonds but divorce lawyers are a girl's best friend.

It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.

If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.

I admit I have a Hungarian temper. Why not? I am from Hungary. We are descendants of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun.

I'm not a girl who sits home and knits, you know.

Every girl should be married at least once in her life. It's a must. Because once you have been married, you are a Mrs., and even if the marriage doesn't work out, they can't take that away from you.

What is really important for a woman, you know, even more than being beautiful or intelligent, is to be entertaining.

I'm a compulsive buyer. Anything beautiful I see I want. That's how we got the Waldorf Astoria. I told Conrad Hilton, 'I want the Waldorf,' and he bought it. The only problem was I divorced him before the escrow was finished.

Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.

I wasn't born, I was ordered from room service.

I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.

I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.

There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.

I am a horsewoman. I am a princess. I am Zsa Zsa.

It's not hard to find a new husband, but someone who is, for an example, a good bridge partner for you comes along once in a lifetime.

The minute I understand a man, he is no longer exciting and a challenge to me. And the last thing in the world I want is for a man to understand me and know what's always going on inside my head. It takes away from all my mystery, which, as I've told you before, is the most important thing between a man and a woman.

All my life, I have been a positive thinker... I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event - no matter how tragic - one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy.

I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.

I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.

Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.

I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names.

I never really mind what people say about me - I am far too unconventional and far too dedicated to being true to myself to let other people's disdain or nastiness upset me for long.

Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.

I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.

A woman who tells her age tells everything, and I won't tell it.

To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.

You never really know a man until you have divorced him.

Diamonds are a girl's best friend, and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense.

Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.

To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.

I deserve attention not because of any talent, but just because of who I am.

One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.

You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.

There is nothing wrong with a woman encouraging a man's advances, as long as they are in cash.