I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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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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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Strong women only marry weak men.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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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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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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I 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.
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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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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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