Imelda Marcos quotes

Imelda Marcos is a Filipino politician and former First Lady of the Philippines, widely known for her extravagant lifestyle. Her extensive shoe collection and lavish spending became symbols of excess and controversy during her husband's regime. She remains a prominent and polarizing figure in Philippine society and politics. Here are 67 of her quotes:

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

Imelda Marcos

Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.

Imelda Marcos

I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance.

Imelda Marcos

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

Imelda Marcos

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

Imelda Marcos

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

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

Funny, I never shopped. Even my jewelry - not a piece of my jewelry I bought for me.

Imelda Marcos

My grandchildren are growing up and they could not understand why the Marcoses are still being crucified although we keep on telling them that we did not steal from the Filipino people.

Imelda Marcos

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

Imelda Marcos

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

Imelda Marcos

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

Imelda Marcos

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

Imelda Marcos

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

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

It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some effort. And unfortunately people think of beauty as luxury, beauty as frivolity, ... or extravagance. Beauty is a discipline, beauty is art, is harmony, in the ideological sense and in the theological sense, beauty is God and love made real. And the ultimate reach in this world is beauty.

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

Imelda Marcos

President Marcos was investing in precious metals long before he entered politics.

Imelda Marcos

I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act.

Imelda Marcos

The Philippines is where Asia wears a smile. Beautiful products can only be made by happy people.

Imelda Marcos

The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.

Imelda Marcos