Quotes by Marie Dressler

“I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features”

“By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.”

“Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.”

“Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.”

“There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.”

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

“In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves.”

“No vice is so bad as advice”

“To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death”

“Only a few things are really important.”

“By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth”

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