Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
BETTE DAVISOnce the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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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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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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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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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
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I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
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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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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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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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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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I work to stay alive.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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