The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
BETTE DAVISBasically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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Yes, burn your bridges.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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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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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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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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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
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The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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