A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.
Englishmen never will be slaves they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them.
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.
The philosopher is Nature's pilot - and there you have our difference to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
An index is a great leveller.
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...
When you vote, you only change the names of the cabinet. When you shoot, you pull down governments, inaugurate new epochs, abolish old orders and set up new.