262 Quotes by Bette Davis

I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.

I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.

To look back is to relax one’s vigil.

The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.

May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life’s ambition is – and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.

Daddy in his infinite knowledge always saw the roots and not the flowers. He took all the watches of the world apart and never knew what time it was.

I’ve lost my faith in science.

There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.

If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.