Bette Davis movie quotes

“You're not even good enough for the cuss words I know.”
Bette Davis - Joan Winfield

“- Gabrielle Maple: Your wife must have treated you terribly.
- Alan Squier: Why do you say that?
- Gabrielle Maple: She took all the heart out of you. I could put it back.”
Bette Davis - Gabrielle Maple
Leslie Howard - Alan Squier

“Don't you pull any of your tricks on me, because I'm on to every one of them. So lay off.”

Bette Davis - Maggie Cutler

“There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.”
Bette Davis - Kit Marlowe

“What good's ridin' and fightin' these days? What does it get ya?”
Bette Davis - Michael O'Leary

“I've never taken orders from anyone. As long as I live, I'll never take orders from anyone. I'm young and strong and nothing can touch me.”
Bette Davis - Judith Traherne

“Some women just aren't the marrying kind.”
Bette Davis - Charlotte Vale

“Temper, temper, Bowers!”
Bette Davis - Mrs. Van Schuyler

“Moving to Vermont are you? What do you do there in between yawns?”
Bette Davis - Judith Traherne

“The only fun I get is feeding the goldfish, and they only eat once a day.”
Bette Davis - Marie Roark

“- Jerry Durrance: Are you afraid of getting burnt if you get too close to happiness?
- Charlotte Vale: No. I'm immune to happiness and therefore to burns.”
Paul Henreid - Jerry Durrance
Bette Davis - Charlotte Vale

“- Job Skeffington: A woman is beautiful when she's loved, and only then.
- Fanny Trellis Skeffington: Nonsense. A woman is beautiful when she has eight hours' sleep and goes to the beauty parlor every day. And bone structure has a lot to do with it too.”
Claude Rains - Job Skeffington
Bette Davis - Fanny Trellis Skeffington

- Mary Dwight Strauber: I'm sick of making deals.
- Dorothy "Gabby" Marvin: Well, you wanna keep on living, don't you?
- Mary Dwight Strauber: If this is what you call living, I don't want any part of it.
Bette Davis - Mary Dwight Strauber
Lola Lane - Dorothy "Gabby" Marvin

“Do you mind very much, Mr. Shane, taking off your hat in the presence of a lady with a gun?”
Bette Davis - Valerie Purvis

“Rules are made to be broken. At least mine are by me.”
Bette Davis - Mrs. Van Schuyler

“Poor Robert, he doesn't deserve it. He's never hurt anyone in his life. He's so good and simple and kind and he trusts me so. I mean everything, everything in the world to him. It's gonna ruin his life.”
Bette Davis - Leslie Crosbie

“Always being afraid. Never knowing from one day to the next what's going to happen to you. I'm fed up with being afraid of Vanning or anybody else. There must be some other way for me to live.”

Bette Davis - Mary Dwight Strauber

“He tried to make love to me and I shot him.”

Bette Davis - Leslie Crosbie

“The petrified forest is a lot of dead trees in the desert that have turned to stone.”
Bette Davis - Gabrielle Maple

“- Mrs. Van Schuyler: Oh, they're beautiful!
- Linnet Ridgeway: Thank you.
- Mrs. Van Schuyler: And extraordinary, if you know how they're made. A tiny piece of grit finds it's way into an oyster, which then becomes a pearl of great price, hanging around the neck, of a pretty girl like you.
- Linnet Ridgeway: I never thought of it that way.
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Bette Davis - Mrs. Van Schuyler
Lois Chiles - Linnet Ridgeway