Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
BETTE DAVISI 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
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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 firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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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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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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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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It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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