262 Quotes by Bette Davis

Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.

I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.

It's a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It's all very sad but it's much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.

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

One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.

Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.

They say that in Hollywood one can't be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.

It's true we don't know what we've got until its gone, but we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.