Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
Quote by Bette Davis
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Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
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Bette Davis Quotes
- 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.
- To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
- A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
- 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.
- Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
- I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
- I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
- This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
- I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
- Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
Best Quotes
- When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
- The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.
- My business is to prevent the future.
- I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
- Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
- I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.
- If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
- Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
- I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.