Marriage Quote by Zsa Zsa Gabor

Zsa Zsa Gabor turns the ugliest administrative chore in a marriage - the divorce settlement - into a punchline about class, power, and the weird theater of American respectability. The gag hinges on a bait-and-switch: "very generous" sets you up for diamonds, cash, or at least something glittering. Instead, you get 5,000 Gideon Bibles, an item famous not for luxury but for being silently ubiquitous in motel drawers. The absurd quantity is the point: abundance without value, a mountain of moral messaging standing in for material restitution.

The line also skewers Conrad Hilton's brand of paternalistic largesse. Gideons are charity-coded, evangelical-coded, and institution-coded. As alimony, they're a flex: he can frame his settlement as benevolent while giving something that reads like public virtue more than private support. Gabor's delivery reclaims the power dynamic. She doesn't argue the terms; she ridicules them, translating a patriarchal gesture into a prop gag that exposes its stinginess.

Culturally, it lands because it fuses two iconic mid-century myths: the glamorous European bombshell and the sanitized, Bible-in-the-nightstand America that tried to manage sex with scripture and etiquette. Gabor, a celebrity whose image traded in romance and scandal, treats that moralizing apparatus as clutter. The subtext is sharp: if you want to reduce a woman to a lesson, she'll sell the lesson back to you as comedy.