Quotes by Imelda Marcos

• Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
• Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
• When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
• I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
• 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.
• 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.
• People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
• We practically own everything in the Philippines.
• My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
• My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
• Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
• It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
• God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
• Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
• The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
• Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
• 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.
• I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
• I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
• I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
• I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
• I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
• If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.