Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
BETTE DAVISPleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
BETTE DAVISAn affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
BETTE DAVISThere are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
BETTE DAVISAmong the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
BETTE DAVISYou should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
BETTE DAVISThere is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
BETTE DAVISTechnicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
BETTE DAVISOh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
BETTE DAVISPeople often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
BETTE DAVISI will never be below the title.
BETTE DAVISI was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
BETTE DAVISIf you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
BETTE DAVISI may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
BETTE DAVISOnce the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
BETTE DAVISI was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
BETTE DAVISI never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
BETTE DAVIS