Bette Davis Quotes

Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
BETTE DAVIS

Mean Trust White Wine
There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
BETTE DAVIS

Hate Heaven Myself
I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself.
BETTE DAVIS

Confidence Myself Stuck
Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
BETTE DAVIS

Inspirational Movie Stars
I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
BETTE DAVIS

Eat Food Forget Yourself
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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Expense Happiness Lose
One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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Brain Enemy Myself Thinking
You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
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Death Gravestone Herself Way
If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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Right Yourself
Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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Heart People
If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
BETTE DAVIS

Person Yourself
You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
BETTE DAVIS

Hate Yourself
Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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Black Myself Proud Thinking
I’ve always liked men better than women.
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Man Woman
You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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Bad Dead Goodness Yourself
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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Breakup I Miss You Love
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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Goodness Hero Old People
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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Forgiveness Heartless Quality Stuck Up
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Black Myself Proud Thinking
Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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Night Yourself
I work to stay alive.
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Alive Myself
I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
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Boy Interest Myself See Woman
Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
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Disappointment Failure Success
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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Humanity Men Sex
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 Miss You Missing Pain True
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Attractive Men Old Woman
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.
BETTE DAVIS

Beginning Myself Time War

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