Quotes by Imelda Marcos

About Imelda Marcos:

Imelda Marcos is the widow of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos notable for her collection of over a thousand pairs of shoes. She served as First Lady from 1965 to 1986.
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I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.

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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and ...

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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

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Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand ta...

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The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.

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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

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The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is my great regret that we didn't change the name of our country.

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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

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My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

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My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ord...

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I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.

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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

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They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.

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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

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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.

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Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

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Author Bio

  • NameImelda Marcos
  • DescriptionFormer First Lady of the Philippines
  • AliasesImelda; Steel Butterfly
  • BornJuly 2, 1929
  • CountryPhilippines
  • ProfessionModel; Singer; Diplomat; Politician; Entrepreneur