Imelda Marcos Quotes
"Win or lose, we go shopping after the election."
- Imelda Marcos
"When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers."
- Imelda Marcos
(Related: Fish, Kings)
"I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty."
- Imelda Marcos
"Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows."
- Imelda Marcos
(Related: Bible, Crime, Hell, Persecution, Widows)
"They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system."
- Imelda Marcos
(Related: Ugliness)
"People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?"
- Imelda Marcos
(Related: Beauty, People, Want)
"We practically own everything in the Philippines."
- Imelda Marcos
"My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble."
- Imelda Marcos
(Related: Husband, Talk, Trouble)
"My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become."
- Imelda Marcos
(Related: Dreams, Life, Reality)
"Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity."
- Imelda Marcos
(Related: Life, Family, Comfort, Country, Dignity, Rights, Human rights, Justice)
"It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose."
- Imelda Marcos
(Related: Nothing, Poor)
"God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven."
- Imelda Marcos
(Related: God, Love, Heaven, Will)
"Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes."
- Imelda Marcos
(Related: Survival, Fight, Self, Theft)
"The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave."
- Imelda Marcos
(Related: First, Ladies, Problems)
"Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums."
- Imelda Marcos
(Related: Beauty, Poor, Want, Will)
"If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are."
- Imelda Marcos
(Related: Wealth)
"I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am."
- Imelda Marcos
(Related: People, Accident, First, Lady)
"I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty."
- Imelda Marcos
(Related: Listening)
"I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness."
- Imelda Marcos
(Related: Hate, Ugliness)
"I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical."
- Imelda Marcos
(Related: Thinking)
"I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back."
- Imelda Marcos
(Related: Love, Father)
"I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility."
- Imelda Marcos
(Related: Nobility, Right)
"If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much."
- Imelda Marcos