Bette Davis Quotes

If everyone likes you, you're not doing it right.

It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people.

You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.

Getting old is not for sissies.

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.

If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.

Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.

You know what nostalgia is, don't you? It's basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.

Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.

There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

You can lose everything but you can't lose your talent!

It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! - As Margo Channing in All About Eve

I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

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.

I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.