You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
BETTE DAVISYou know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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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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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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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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It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
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