Bette Davis Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

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.

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

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

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

I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.

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

There's only one way to work -- like hell.

One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.

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

Do you know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'

Your luck is how you treat people.

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

The secret of marriage is separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.

If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.

I wouldn't piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.

Attempt the impossible to improve your work.

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

I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

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

You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.

Old age is no place for sissies.

Success only breeds a new goal