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.
BETTE DAVISThe out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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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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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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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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You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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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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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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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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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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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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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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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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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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