Jerry: Are you one of the Vales of Boston?
Charlotte: One of the lesser ones.


--Bette Davis (as Charlotte Vale) in Now, Voyager

Charlotte Vale: I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid, mother. I'm not afraid.


--Bette Davis (as Charlotte Vale) in Now, Voyager

Margo Channing: As it happens, there are particular aspects of my life to which I would like to maintain sole and exclusive rights and privileges.
Bill Sampson: For instance what?
Margo Channing: For instance: you!


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

Margo Channing: Bill's thirty-two. He looks thirty-two. He looked it five years ago, he'll look it twenty years from now. I hate men.


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

Margo Channing: Bill's welcome home birthday party might go down in history. Even before the party started, I could smell disaster in the air. I knew it, I sensed it, even as I finished dressing for the blasted party.


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

Margo Channing: Don't get up. And please stop acting as if I were the queen mother.


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

Margo Channing: Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night!


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

Margo Channing: Funny business, a woman's career - the things you drop on your way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. That's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted. And in the last analysis, nothing's any good unless you can look up just before dinner or turn around in bed, and there he is. Without that, you're not a woman. You're something with a French provincial office or a book full of clippings, but you're not a woman. Slow curtain, the end.


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

Margo Channing: I detest cheap sentiment.


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

Margo Channing: I'll admit I may have seen better days, but I'm still not to be had for the price of a cocktail like a salted peanut.


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