'This attitude of mine gets me into a lot of trouble': Famous quotes from Zsa Zsa Gabor

Jessica Wong | CBC News | Posted: December 19, 2016 7:02 PM | Last Updated: December 19, 2016

O.G. socialite celebrity dead at 99

Zsa Zsa Gabor was undoubtedly a beauty, but it was her arsenal of one-liners, dahling, that cemented her status as the O.G. socialite celebrity.

• Hungarian actress Zsa Zsa Gabor dead at 99

Gabor had the uncanny ability to deliver eminently quotable bon mots, whether during an appearance on a talk show or the red carpet, in several fizzy memoirs and advice books or — infamously — alongside a brisk slap during a Beverly Hills traffic stop.

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Caption: Gabor seen lounging on a sofa in an evening gown in July 1952. (Nixon/Express/Getty Images)

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Almost tangentially an actress, the vivacious Gabor was married nine times and was a prototype for people who are famous just for being famous.

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Caption: Gabor was famous less for her acting than for her marriages, her jewelry, her lifestyle and for courting publicity of any kind. (Baron/Getty Images)

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"All my life it has been my fate to fall in love with men who don't really like women," the outrageous and outspoken Gabor once told the Associated Press about her notorious track record for relationships.

Through it all, she was a feisty femme who knew how to turn lemons into lemonade.

And she left us a treasure trove of snappy quips.

"A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it."

"A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished."

"Husbands are like fires: They go out when unattended."

"I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane."

"Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful."

"What is really important for a woman, you know, even more than being beautiful or intelligent, is to be entertaining."

"I believe that in life you should always take the serious things lightly and the light things seriously. This attitude of mine gets me into a lot of trouble."

"I'm a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep the house."

"How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?"

"I believe in large families: Every woman should have at least three husbands."

"I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back."

"Macho does not prove mucho."

"Men fall in love with their eyes — they like what they see. And women fall in love with their ears — they like what they hear!"

"I don't remember anybody's name. Why do you think the 'dahling' thing started?"