Quotes by Bette Davis

“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”

“The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.”

“If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.”

“I believe in giving as honest an answer as I can. Because perhaps if people spent more time being honest with each other, especially with children, there would be less unhappiness in the world.”

“Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.”

“If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.”

“Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have...”

“Bette Davis lived long enough to hear the Kim Carnes song, 'Bette Davis Eyes'. The lyrics to that song were not very interesting. But the fact of the song was the proof of an acknowledgement that i...”

“I was thinking how most people don't make you feel much of anything at all. Don't make you feel like time spent with them has grace, like every moment in their company is a gift. But Finn did. Finn...”

“I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.”

“Old age ain't no place for sissies.”

“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 cannot deny that Vera, in her own way--in the way of all human beings who are kind and not cruel--really is lovely.”

“Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.”

“This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.”

“To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.”

“I work to stay alive.”

“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.”

“Old age is no place for sissies.”

“A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.”