Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
BETTE DAVISI often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Among 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.
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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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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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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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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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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. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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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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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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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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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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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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Strong women only marry weak men.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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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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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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