HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper - say on a canal barge...

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

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

How can she? She's incapable of understanding anything. Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

Work is the major instrument for conversion

Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition

I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to eat it. I remember being very unhappy about that.

There are portraits and still-lifes And the first, because 'human' Does not excel the second

Rent is about a community celebrating life, in the face of death and AIDS, at the turn of the century.

Race has been a big issue in this [presidency] campaign [2016].

I think all decision making is very instinctive, in the end.

Great insight comes from seeing something as odd and finding out why.

Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

You do your own thing and you see if you survive.