A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
BETTE DAVISIt’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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
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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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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
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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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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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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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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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The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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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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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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If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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