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
- The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
- I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
- 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.
- I've always liked men better than women.
- Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
- I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
- Old age is no place for sissies.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- Hope is a very unruly emotion.
- The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
- Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.
- Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
- Every beautiful eye has a hidden cry.
- Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.
- Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
- It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
- I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
- My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.