Bette Davis Quotes

Success only breeds a new goal

Old age is no place for sissies.

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

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

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

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

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

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

Attempt the impossible to improve your work.

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

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

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

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

The secret of marriage is separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.

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

Your luck is how you treat people.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.

Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.

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

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