Top 33 Imelda Marcos Quotes

If you know how much you’ve got, you probably haven’t got much.

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

Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn’t stolen.

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.

I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war… I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it’s too late.

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.

I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.

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

I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.

I hate ugliness. You know I’m allergic to ugliness.

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

I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it’s doable.

You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth – she’s Elizabeth the Second. There’s only one Imelda.

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 hospitals and giving them food.

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

It’s the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

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

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

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

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it’s so petty.

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

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

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

I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I’m not linear in thinking, I’m not very logical.

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

Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.

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

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That’s how rich we are.

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

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.

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

My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.

We practically own everything in the Philippines.