“There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.”

“Why haven't I got a husband and children?" mused Greta Garbo to the Dutchess of Windsor, "I never met a man I could marry.”

“I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.”

“I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.”

“Bartender! Vring me some viskey with chincher ale on de side & don't be stingy, baby. (Garbo's first words in a talking picture)”

“There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.”

“Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.”