“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Perhaps it's better if I live in your heart, where the world can't see me. If I'm dead, there will be no stain on our love.”

“Why should you care for a woman like me? I'm always nervous or sick, or sad or too gay.”