The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
BETTE DAVISThe act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
BETTE DAVISGetting old is not for sissies.
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.
BETTE DAVISI 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.
BETTE DAVISIf everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
BETTE DAVISOne can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
BETTE DAVISIn this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
BETTE DAVISYou should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
BETTE DAVISYou will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
BETTE DAVISIt’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
BETTE DAVISI wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
BETTE DAVISWhat a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
BETTE DAVISThe real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
BETTE DAVISThere are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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.
BETTE DAVISI’ve always liked men better than women.
BETTE DAVIS