Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

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 always will.

Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.