Zsa Zsa Gabor’s 10 Best Quotes

To honour the late actress we look back at her most inspiring quotes

Zsa Zsa Gabor

by Ellie Wiseman |
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Zsa Zsa Gabor - the Hollywood glamour girl par excellence who called everyone 'darling' - died on Sunday 18th December at the age of 99. The Hungarian actress was famed for her glamorous lifestyle, her taste for luxury and her extravagant love life. Her career began on Vienna's stages in the 1930s, but it wasn't long before Hollywood was calling. She moved to America to play lead roles in Lovely to Look At (1952), We're Not Married! (1952) and Moulin Rouge (1952), draped in diamonds, fur, and plunging dresses.

Though perhaps more glitzy and fascinating than her on-screen charm was her myriad of romances. Her almost century-long life involved no less than nine marriages - including a dalliance with the creator of the Barbie Doll, Jack Ryan. She leaves behind her longest-standing husband, Frédéric Prinz von Anhal, who she married in 1986. It was the experiences of the men who came in and out of her life that inspired some of her most memorable quotes, so we round up the best.

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“A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it."

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

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"We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him but he didn't." - on her former husband, George Sanders.

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

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

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“Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.”

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"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."

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

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“There's no better money to spend than your own.”

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“My husband said it was him or the cat. I miss him sometimes.”

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