I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
BETTE DAVISOne begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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There 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.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I will never be below the title.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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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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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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Getting old is not for sissies.
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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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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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I 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.
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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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