Love is not getting, but giving. It is sacrifice. And sacri… - Marie Dressler

" "
Love is not getting, but giving. It is sacrifice. And sacrifice is glorious! I have no patience with women who measure and weigh their love like a country doctor dispensing capsules. If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

Marie Dressler

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

About Marie Dressler

Leila Marie Koerber (November 9, 1868 – July 28, 1934), known by her stage name Marie Dressler, was a Canadian stage and screen actress, comedienne, and early silent film and Depression-era film star.

Also Known As

Birth Name: Leila Marie Koerber

All quotes from Marie Dressler Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Marie Dressler:

Helen Hayes Charlie Chaplin Bette Davis Maya Angelou Robertson Davies

Additional quotes by Marie Dressler

A rut is like a grave – it's only a question of depth.

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

It is well enough to be interested in one's profession, but to restrict one's leisure to association with the members of one's guild, so to speak, is to be doomed to artificiality and eventually to sterility. In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves.

Love is not getting, but giving. It is sacrifice. And sacrifice is glorious! I have no patience with women who measure and weigh their love like a co… - Marie Dressler

About Marie Dressler

Also Known As

Advanced Search Filters

Additional quotes by Marie Dressler

Enhance Your Quote Experience