I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
The fickleness of the woman I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
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.
An election is a moral horror as bad as a battle except for the blood a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
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...
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...
The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
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.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
MRS PEARCE. Mr Higgins: youre tempting the girl. It’s not right. She should think of the future.HIGGINS. At her age! Nonsense! Time enough to think of the future when you havnt any future to think of.
I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time. If there's anything going, and I put in for a bit o...
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...
But to admire a strong person
Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice but in not desiring it.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.