Regina Giddens: You're a good loser, Ben. I like that.
Ben Hubbard: Well, I say to myself, what's the good? You and I aren't like Oscar. We're not sour people. I think that comes from a good digestion.
[Regina giggles]
Ben Hubbard: Until one loses today, and wins tomorrow. I say to myself, years of planning, and I get what I want. And then I don't get it... But I'm not discouraged. The world's open for people like you and me. There's thousands of us all over the world. We'll own the country some day. They won't try to stop us. We'll get along.
Regina Giddens: [Amused] I think so.


--Bette Davis (as Regina Giddens) in The Little Foxes

Rosa Moline: If I don't get out of here I'll die. If I don't get out of here I hope I die and burn.


--Bette Davis (as Rosa Moline) in Beyond the Forest

Rosa Moline: Life in Loyalton is like sitting in the funeral parlor and waiting for the funeral to begin. No, it's like lying in a coffin and waiting for them to carry you out.


--Bette Davis (as Rosa Moline) in Beyond the Forest

Rosa Moline: What a dump!


--Bette Davis (as Rosa Moline) in Beyond the Forest

Ruth Wescott: It must be a grand feeling to get everything you want.


--Bette Davis (as Ruth Wescott) in Three on a Match

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


--Bette Davis (as Valerie Purvis) in Satan Met a Lady

Harry Willis: You're my favorite living mystery.
Charlotte: Have you ever solved me?


--Bette Davis (as Charlotte Hollis) in Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Don Bellows: Restful here, isn't it?
Joyce Heath: The whole countryside seems to have found peace.
Don Bellows: A person could find peace too.
Joyce Heath: No, you'll only find that in yourself and when you do, you might as well be dead.
Don Bellows: Dead?
Joyce Heath: Rest In Peace is for tombstones.
Don Bellows: And for the living?
Joyce Heath: Desire. To want something. To obtain that desire and live up to every moment of it. And then go on leaving yesterday behind. On and on. Higher and higher.


--Bette Davis (as Joyce Heath) in Dangerous

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.


--Bette Davis (as Fanny Trellis) in Mr. Skeffington

Aunt Belle: Child, you're out of your mind. You know you can't wear red to the Olympus Ball.
Julie Marsden: Can't I? I'm goin' to. This is 1852, dumplin'. 1852, not the Dark Ages.


--Bette Davis (as Julie) in Jezebel