“I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.”
Imelda Marcos“I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.”
Imelda Marcos“When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.”
Imelda Marcos“I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.”
Imelda Marcos“Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.”
Imelda Marcos“People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?”
Imelda Marcos“Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.”
Imelda Marcos“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 tall in the world.”
Imelda Marcos“The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.”
Imelda Marcos“I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.”
Imelda Marcos“Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.”
Imelda Marcos