Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

Principles without programs are platitudes.

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

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

You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.