Bette Davis quotes
- From the movie: Now, Voyager
- From the movie: All This, and Heaven Too
“Happiness isn't a little cake which we can cut up to fill our appetites.”
- From the movie: The Letter
“I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a
long satin nightgown packed more sex than two naked bodies in
bed.”“Old age ain't no place for sissies.”
“Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.”
- From the movie: The Man Who Came to Dinner
“You have one great advantage over everyone else in the world. You've never had to meet Sheridan Whiteside.”
- From the movie: Death on the Nile
“- Mrs. Van Schuyler: Shut up, Bowers. Just because you've got a grudge against her, or rather her father, no need to be uncivil.
- Miss Bowers: Grudge? Melhuish Ridgeway ruined my family!
- Mrs. Van Schuyler: Well, you should be grateful. If he hadn't, you would have missed out on the pleasure of working for me.
- Miss Bowers: I could kill her...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: The Letter
- From the movie: Marked Woman
“- David Graham: Help me to prove that he was responsible for this and I'll put him where he won't kill anybody.
- Mary Dwight Strauber: You don't know what he's like! He stops at nothing. People just disappear and are never heard of again. I don't want that to happen to me.” - From the movie: Old Acquaintance
“- Kit Marlowe: If you'd just look at Millie's activities as confession of weakness, an admission that there's something essentially lacking in her nature, you'd find it a little touching and love her.
- Preston Drake: You sound like one of Millie's books.” - From the movie: Death on the Nile
“- Mrs. Van Schuyler: You perfectly foul French upstart!
- Hercule Poirot: Belgian upstart, please, madame.” “It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.”
- From the movie: Now, Voyager
“I'm my mother's well-loved daughter. I'm her companion. I am my mother's servant.”
- From the movie: The Letter
“- Leslie Crosbie: You won't have to show Bob the letter, will you?
- Howard Joyce: I'll do everything possible to prevent him from seeing it. He'll be an important witness and he should be as firmly convinced of your innocence as he is now.” - From the movie: Watch on the Rhine
“I would have married you any day of my life!”
- From the movie: All This, and Heaven Too
- From the movie: Now, Voyager
“From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.”
“Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.”
- From the movie: Now, Voyager
“I've been living my own life, making my own decisions for a long while now. It's impossible to go back to being treated like a child again. I don't think I'll do anything of importance that will displease you, but Mother, from now on, you must give me complete freedom.”
“There goes the famous good time that was had by all.”
- From the movie: The Man Who Came to Dinner
“The next time you do not want to see anybody, just let me know, and I'll usher them right in.”
- From the movie: Dark Victory
“Nothing can hurt us now. What we have can't be destroyed. That's our victory - our victory over the dark. It is a victory because we're not afraid.”
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