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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Guardian staff

Wit and wisdom: Zsa Zsa Gabor's best and most memorable quotes

‘Zsa Zsa is gone, the party is over’

The actor and socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor was well known for her large personality and colourful take on love, marriage and romance.

Here are some of her most memorable quotes:

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finishedNewsweek, 28 March 1960.

Husbands are like fires – they go out when unattendedNewsweek, 28 March 1960.

I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds backThe Observer, 28 August 1957.

When asked how many husbands she had had: You mean apart from my own?I Wish I’d Said That! by Kenneth Edwards, 1967.

A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it Colombo’s Concise Canadian Quotations, 1979.

He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house – on her fifth husband, quoted by Ned Sherrin in Cutting Edge, 1984.

I don’t remember anybody’s name. Why do you think the ‘dahling’ thing started? – Hollywood Wits, K Madsen Roth, 1995.

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