Quotable 4 May 2024: Bette Davis reflects on 'boys' competing for renowned women, the male ego, love culminating in marriage, and the distinction between the anguish and joy of love

Bette Davis by Jack Freulich, circa 1930

‘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’.

‘The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with’.

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

‘The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms’.

‘Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over’.

‘Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime’.

Quotes via https://www.azquotes.com/author/3703-Bette_Davis

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