What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.
Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chapero...
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Who asked him to make a gentleman of me? I was happy. I was free. I touched pretty nigh everybody for money when I wanted it, same as I touched you, Henry Higgins. Now I am worrited; tied neck and hee...
I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and alway...
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make th...
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
He knows nothing he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.
The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the w...
What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.