HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.