You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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I work to stay alive.
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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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Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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I will never be below the title.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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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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To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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