--- title: Zsa Zsa Gabor Dead at 99: 5 of Her Great One-Liners description: The actress — who died on Dec. 18, 2016, at age 99 — will be remembered for her way with words canonical: https://time.com/4605879/zsa-zsa-gabor-quotes-one-liners/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-19T01:39:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:21:36.402Z article:section: History og:title: 5 of Zsa Zsa Gabor’s Great One-Liners og:description: The actress, who has died at 99, will be remembered for her way with words og:url: https://time.com/4605879/zsa-zsa-gabor-quotes-one-liners/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd3f684552ad19321/6988b35a0a4a222a349cc61f/zsa-zsa.jpeg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Zsa Zsa Gabor og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 5 of Zsa Zsa Gabor’s Great One-Liners twitter:description: The actress, who has died at 99, will be remembered for her way with words twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd3f684552ad19321/6988b35a0a4a222a349cc61f/zsa-zsa.jpeg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 5 of Zsa Zsa Gabor’s Great One-Liners by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Dec 19, 2016 1:39 AM UTC  Zsa Zsa Gabor, circa 1950 Zsa Zsa Gabor, circa 1950Hulton Archive / Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Dec 19, 2016 1:39 AM UTC When Zsa Zsa Gabor — the actress and personality who [died on Sunday at 99](http://time.com/4605880/zsa-zsa-gabor-dies-obituary/) — sat down to write her autobiography in 1959, she[ explained](http://time.com/vault/issue/1959-03-09/page/39) to TIME the impetus behind the project: “I want to make it clear that I’m not just the dumb blonde who wisecracks.” But, despite her desire to get away from that reputation, the second half of it was well-earned: Gabor had a way with words, and in fact nobody who was truly dumb would have been able to sling a retort the way she did. Here are just a few of Gabor’s highlights, as quoted in TIME over the years: During a public feud with then-husband George Sanders[ in 1951](http://time.com/vault/issue/1951-11-19/page/48): “A woman has the right to quarrel with her husband in the afternoon because it is so much fun to make up in the evening.” [_Get your history fix in one place: sign up for the weekly TIME History newsletter_](http://time.com/newsletter) When sued for $1 million[ in 1952](http://time.com/vault/issue/1952-08-25/page/34) by the French actress Corinne Calvert, for saying that Calvert wasn’t actually French: “It’s much easier to get a million dollars out of a rich husband than it is out of another actress.” While waiting for her then-beau Porfirio Rubirosa to finalize his divorce[ in 1955](http://time.com/vault/issue/1955-03-21/page/40): “I am a very faithful girl even when I’m not married. When Rubi isn’t around, I only date old friends and ex-husbands.” During an insult-war with Marlene Dietrich[ in 1956](http://time.com/vault/issue/1956-09-24/page/36), referring to Dietrich’s age: “I always was a great admirer of Marlene’s, but so was my mother and so was my father.” When Jack Paar said[ in 1958](http://time.com/vault/issue/1958-06-16/page/78) that, when he first saw her he wanted her as a guest on his show “right away”: “Nobody gets me right away.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4605879/zsa-zsa-gabor-quotes-one-liners/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4605879/zsa-zsa-gabor-quotes-one-liners/"},"headline":"5 of Zsa Zsa Gabor’s Great One-Liners","datePublished":"2016-12-19T01:39:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T02:21:36.402Z","description":"Gabor has died at 99","url":"https://time.com/4605879/zsa-zsa-gabor-quotes-one-liners/","keywords":["remembrance"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd3f684552ad19321/6988b35a0a4a222a349cc61f/zsa-zsa.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd3f684552ad19321/6988b35a0a4a222a349cc61f/zsa-zsa.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Zsa Zsa Gabor","caption":"Zsa Zsa Gabor","creditText":"Hulton Archive / Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/remembrance/","name":"remembrance"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4605879/zsa-zsa-gabor-quotes-one-liners/","name":"5 of Zsa Zsa Gabor’s Great One-Liners"}}]}] ```