The last photo of Zsa Zsa Gabor: Shocking picture of legendary star on her hospital bed reveals how her final years were plagued by ill health

Never losing her thick Hungarian accent, Gabor's cutting tongue helped draw an army of fans who adored the fact she could be herself. Here are a selection of some of her best quotes:

- 'I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.'

- 'As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.'

- On calling everyone 'darling', or 'dahlink' in her Hungarian accent, she said: 'I call everyone "dahlink" because I can't remember their names.'

- 'I am a marvellous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.'

- On a brief flirtation with screen siren Greta Garbo: 'She kissed me straight on the mouth. And I couldn't help kissing her back because she was so overwhelmingly strong and so beautiful.'

- 'I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?'

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

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

Gabor once summed up her attitude toward marriage by saying: 'Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.' She is pictured above in 2011 with her husband von Anhalt celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary 

- 'Getting divorced because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married because you do.'

- 'Husbands are like fires – they go out when unattended.'

- On life in Budapest: 'The family led a life filled with grace and charm. There were vacations at our house on the shores of Lake Balaton, excursions in our Mercedes, parties glittering with beautiful women and dashing men, waltzing together under the flickering light of our crystal chandeliers.' 

- On living in America: 'It seemed to me that although I was still so young, I had already lived many lifetimes. Now I was in America, becoming American; dyeing my blond hair a rich American red; learning to drive a compact American car; and discovering that American men with money seemed to think that every girl in the world belonged to them.'

- On marrying Conrad Hilton: 'Conrad's decision to change my name from Zsa Zsa to Georgia symbolised everything my marriage to him would eventually become. My Hungarian roots were to be ripped out and my background ignored. ... I soon discovered that my marriage to Conrad meant the end of my freedom. My own needs were completely ignored: I belonged to Conrad.'

- On her first television appearance: 'I couldn't even go out on the streets of Los Angeles without being mobbed by crowds of fans. It had all happened so quickly - as everything in my life seems to happen.' 

- On her three-year marriage to businessman Herbert Hutner: 'Herbert took away my will to work. With his kindness and generosity, he almost annihilated my drive. I have always been the kind of woman who could never be satisfied by money - only excitement and achievement.'

- 'All in all - I love being married. I love the companionship, I love cooking for a man (simple things like chicken soup and my special Dracula's goulash from Hungary), and spending all my time with a man. Of course I love being in love - but it is marriage that really fulfills me. But not in every case.' 

- 'I never really mind what people say about me - I am far too unconventional and far too dedicated to being true to myself to let other people's disdain or nastiness upset me for long.' 

- On surviving: 'All my life, I have been a positive thinker ... I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event - no matter how tragic - one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy.' 

The Hungarian born actress and socialite was known for a number of things, including being married a total of nine times throughout her lifetime. 

The outspoken Gabor first married Turkish diplomat Burhan Asaf Belge in 1937, but they divorced in 1941. She went on the next year to marry hotel businessman Conrad Hilton in 1942, but they divorced five years later in 1947. 

Two years later, Gabor married Oscar-winning actor George Sanders in 1949 and they split in 1954. She went on to marry Herbert Hutner in 1962 and they divorced in 1966. 

Gabor then married Joshua S. Cosden Jr. later that year in 1966, but they divorced a year later in 1967. 

In 1975 she married Jack Ryan, but that marriage only lasted a year and they were divorced in 1976. 

That same year, she went on to marry Michael O'Hara, as the couple split in 1983. Gabor then married Felipe de Alba not long after, but the marriage was annulled that same year in 1983. 

Three years later, Gabor married Von Anhalt in 1986, as this was her longest marriage of the nine.

Zsa Zsa Gabor, the Hungarian-born Hollywood siren perhaps better known for her prodigious love life than her movie credits, died Sunday after suffering a heart attack, her husband said. She was 99.

The news was confirmed by an emotional Frederic von Anhalt, who she married in 1986, making it her longest marriage.

Gabor, who in her heyday embodied the film industry's platinum blonde ideal, was a voluptuous former beauty queen with a penchant for lame gowns that accentuated her hourglass curves.

Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor poses on May 12, 1958, in front of her Mercedes car

Her resume includes a long list of film roles in such hit movies as 'Moulin Rouge,' 'Lili' and 'Arrivederci Baby!'

But the actress was at least as famous for her conquests between the sheets as her triumphs on the silver screen.

Like her famous great-granddaughter by marriage Paris Hilton, Gabor was among the first celebrities to be famous for her celebrity.

Her thick Hungarian accent was much parodied - especially her penchant for calling everyone she met 'darling' - or 'dahlink' as she pronounced it.

It became her unique signature.

'I call everyone 'dahlink' because I can't remember their names,' the socialite once said. 

Born in Hungary on February 6, 1917, as Sari Gabor, Zsa Zsa was one of a trio of ravishing sisters known for their shapely curves and passion for well-heeled men.

Her sisters were Magda, and Hollywood star Eva Gabor, who achieved greater acting success in the United States than her sister for her role in the 1960s hit television series 'Green Acres.'

Zsa Zsa also came to be known for her love of diamonds and frequently was photographed dripping in the sparkling gems.

During nine marriages and a prodigious number of affairs that made her a fixture in America's gossip magazines, she had just one child - a daughter Francesca, fathered by hotel magnate Conrad Hilton.

She wrote in her 1993 autobiography 'One Lifetime is Not Enough' that she lost her virginity at the age of 15 to Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey.

Us actress Zsa Zsa Gabor smiles in a car during her travel in Paris, on April 10, 1954

'For the rest of my life, I would search for another god to eclipse him,' Gabor wrote.

Her romantic scorecard was a 'Who's Who' of Hollywood heartthrobs of her day, and her kiss-and-tell book detailed romances with screen legends Sean Connery and Frank Sinatra.

Gabor was known to be picky, however, spurning the advances of John F. Kennedy, Elvis Presley, John Huston and Henry Fonda, she wrote in her autobiography.

Her romantic dalliances even included a flirtation with screen legend Greta Garbo.

'She kissed me straight on the mouth. And I couldn't help kissing her back because she was so overwhelmingly strong and so beautiful,' Gabor wrote.

In June 1989, Gabor made headlines when she slapped the face of a Beverly Hills police officer for giving her a traffic ticket. She was sentenced to three days in jail and ordered to pay $13,000 in court costs.

Gabor was briefly married to British-born actor George Sanders, who later wooed and briefly wed her sister Magda. 

The loquacious actress was known for an endless stream of bon mots, mostly uttered on the talkshow circuit, about her favorite topics: love, sex, romance and divorce.

Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor holding a beaded purse removed from a 30-year-old trunk containing possessions of actress Marilyn Monroe at Planet Hollywood in Beverly Hills, California

They included:

• A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
• Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
• Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.
• I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.
• I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house.
• You never really know a man until you have divorced him.

Gabor, who had been in and out of hospital since a hip replacement in 2010, had several close brushes with death in recent years.

A 2002 car accident left the actress partially paralyzed and wheelchair-bound. She also had a stroke in 2005. One of her legs was partially amputated.

In 2011, von Anhalt said he had kept the extent of Gabor's medical problems from her, so that she could enjoy the festivities in typical style.

'We had some champagne and caviar... we really celebrated good,' he told AFP at the time. 'I knew she had to go to the hospital, but I didn't want to tell her anything.'