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9 unforgettable quotes from Zsa Zsa Gabor

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This week news broke that legendary film and TV actress Zsa Zsa Gabor had sadly passed away at the age of 99.

In addition to her acting career she was perhaps best known for being married nine times to rich businessman - most notably to Conrad Hilton, the founder of the Hilton hotel chain.

Here are just a few of our favourite quotes from the late great actress:

1. On keeping a good home:

I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.

The Bob Hope Show, 1961

2. On love

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished 

 Newsweek, 28 March 1960.

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3. On a girl's best friend:

I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

The Observer, August 28, 1957.

4. When asked how many husbands she'd had:

You mean apart from my own?

I Wish I’d Said That! by Kenneth Edwards, 1967.

5. When she 'invented' Hollywood's favourite greeting:

I don’t remember anybody’s name. How do you think the ‘dahling’’ thing got started?

Hollywood Hits by K Madsen Roth, 1995

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6. On finding 'the one':

A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it.

Colombo’s Concise Canadian Quotations

7. And how to keep him once you find him:

Husbands are like fires: They go out when unattended.

Newsweek, March, 1960

8. On the differences between the sexes:

Men fall in love with their eyes, they like what they see,  and women fall in love with their ears, they like what they hear!

How to Catch a Man, How to Keep a Man, How to Get Rid of a Man

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9. On fragile masculinity:

Macho does not prove mucho.

How to Pick a Lover: For Women Who Want to Win at Love 

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