If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

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.

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

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.