Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper - say on a canal barge...
Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existi...
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers.
This is the true joy in life the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap.
Martyrdom - the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
fights you on patriotic principles he robs you on business principles he enslaves you on imperial principles.
You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?