I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
BETTE DAVISSome 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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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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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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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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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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