Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours.
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.
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each o...
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can.
That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to d...
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
You don't get tired of muffins. But you don't find inspiration in them
Oh that. Men do fall in love with me. They seem to think me a creature with volcanic passions; I'm sure I don't know why. All the volcanic women I know are plain little creatures with sandy hair. I do...
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...
HIGGINSI find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I bec...
I owe all my originality, such as it is, to my determination not to be a literary man. Instead of belonging to a literary club I belong to a municipal council. Instead of drinking and discussing autho...
Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.
One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us ashamed of ourselves of our relatives of our incomes of our accents of our opinion of our experience just a...
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.
Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.