Lloyd Richards: You've been talking to that venomous fishwife Addison DeWitt!
Margo Channing: In this case, apparently as trustworthy as the World Almanac!


--Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve

Bill Sampson: You have every reason for happiness.
Margo Channing: Except happiness!


--Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve

Jim Johannson aka Barry Lester: [while at the zoo, a seal is barking loudly] Listen to that seal!
Margaret Elliott: Sounds like my brother-in-law!


--Bette Davis (as Margaret Elliot) in The Star

Basil Underwood: Alright Joyce, I'm reaching for my gun.
Joyce Arden: Wait, I believe the trigger's at the rear end.


--Bette Davis (as Joyce Arden) in It's Love I'm After

Basil Underwood: We'll be married tomorrow!
Joyce Arden: Not to me you won't! Not tomorrow or tomorrow, or tomorrow!


--Bette Davis (as Joyce Arden) in It's Love I'm After

Philip Carey: I thought you were never coming.
Mildred Rogers: Ooh, like that. After keeping me waiting. I almost went home.
Philip Carey: I was in the second class waiting room. I thought you said you'd be there.
Mildred Rogers: No, I said "is it likely I would sit in the second class if I could sit in the first?" For a gentleman of brains you don't use them, do ya?
Philip Carey: Perhaps not. Anyway you're here, so it's alright, isn't it?
Mildred Rogers: You certainly do make a girl feel important to ya.


--Bette Davis (as Mildred Rogers) in Of Human Bondage

Preston: [stands at the door] Goodbye Julie.
Julie: [looks at Preston slightly shocked] Is that all you've got to say to me?
Preston: There's nothing more to say.
Julie: Evidently you've made up your mind
Preston: No Julie, you've made up my mind.
Julie: [looks at Preston and smiles slightly] Goodbye Pres.
[shakes his hand eyes him carefully, frowns and then slaps him]
Preston: Goodbye Julie.


--Bette Davis (as Julie) in Jezebel

[Julie presents the red dress to her fiancee, Preston]
Preston Dillard: You never saw an unmarried girl in anything but white.
Julie Marsden: Then you're gonna see one tomorrow night.


--Bette Davis (as Julie) in Jezebel

[the Queen enters as Raleigh is on his knees trying to pick up Beth Throgmorton's broken pearl necklace]
Queen Elizabeth I: [to Beth] Is this your pet swine? You've cast your pearls before him.


--Bette Davis (as Queen Elizabeth I) in The Virgin Queen

[to an Oscar statuette]
Margaret Elliott: Come on, Oscar, let's you and me go get drunk!


--Bette Davis (as Margaret Elliot) in The Star