Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
Top 10 Best Quotes
“What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.”
“If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.”
“Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby”
“What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.”
“I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.”
“I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.”
“ HIGGINS I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical. Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another. PICKERING At what, for example? HIGGINS Oh, Lord knows! I suppose the woman wants to live her own life; and the man wants to live his; and each tries to drag the other on to the wrong track. One wants to go north and the other south; and the result is that both have to go east, though they both hate the east wind.”
“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.”
“Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.”
“HIGGINS. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.”
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