The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
BETTE DAVISI have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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