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

Jerry: Is it Miss, or Mrs.?
Charlotte: It's Aunt.


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

Charlotte: A spinster aunt is an ideal person to select presents for young girls.


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

Charlotte: Dora, I suspect you're a treasure.


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

Charlotte: Dr. Jasquith says that tyranny is sometimes expression of the maternal instinct. If that's a mother's love, I want no part of it.


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

Charlotte: I didn't want to be born. You didn't want me to be born. It's been a calamity on both sides.


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

Charlotte: Oh Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.


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

Charlotte: Some girls aren't the marrying kind.


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

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

Dr. Jasquith: I thought you said you came here to have a nervous breakdown.
Charlotte: About that, I've decided not to have one.


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