Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
BETTE DAVISThere is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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’ve lost my faith in science.
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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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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. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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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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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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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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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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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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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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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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It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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