It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
BETTE DAVISMen 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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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Basically, 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.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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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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I’ve lost my faith in science.
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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 was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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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 never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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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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Getting old is not for sissies.
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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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