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.
BETTE DAVISAt 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.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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I will never be below the title.
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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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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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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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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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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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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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