Explore more quotes by Greta Garbo

"I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live."

America,

"Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?"

Longing,

"It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country."

Country, Years

"Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it."

Life,

"My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think."

Limitations,

"The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me."

Life, People

"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."

Want,

"If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is."

Dream, Hollywood

"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."

Heart,

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

Smile,

Exlpore more Life quotes

"The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

Life, Civilization, Improvement, Mankind, Security

"A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

Life, Man, Woman

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Life, Morality, May

"Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society."

Karl Marx, German Philosopher

Life, Health, Society

"Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!"

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Life, Machine, Nerves, Poor

"Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

Life, Care, Day, Rest, Will

"No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right."

Helen Keller, American Author

Life, Happiness, Man, Right

"It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Life, Saying

"How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?"

Tony Robbins, American Author

Life, Order, Today, Tomorrow

"Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others."

Helen Keller, American Author

Life, Business