No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

Morality is not respectability.

If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

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.

I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.