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Pygmalion
By
George Bernard Shaw
QUOTATION: Not bloody likely.
ATTRIBUTION: George Bernard Shaw (18561950), Anglo-Irish playwright,
critic. (First produced, in German, 1913). Eliza Doolittle, in Pygmalion,
act 3, The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces,
vol. 4, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1972).
QUOTATION: I dont want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.
ATTRIBUTION: George Bernard Shaw (18561950), Anglo-Irish playwright,
critic. Liza Doolittle, in Pygmalion, act 2.
QUOTATION: I have to live for others and not for myself: thats
middle-class morality.
ATTRIBUTION: George Bernard Shaw (18561950), Anglo-Irish playwright,
critic. Alfred Doolittle, in Pygmalion, act 5.
QUOTATION: The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how
she behaves, but how shes treated.
ATTRIBUTION: George Bernard Shaw (18561950), Anglo-Irish playwright,
critic. (First produced, in German, 1913). Eliza Doolittle, in Pygmalion,
act 5, The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces,
vol. 4, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1972).
QUOTATION: Pickering: Have you no morals, man? Doolittle: Cant
afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.
ATTRIBUTION: George Bernard Shaw (18561950), Anglo-Irish playwright,
critic. (First produced, in German, 1913). Pygmalion, act 2, The Bodley
Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces, vol. 4, ed. Dan
H. Laurence (1972).
QUOTATION: 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.
ATTRIBUTION: George Bernard Shaw (18561950), Anglo-Irish playwright,
critic. (First produced, in German, 1913). Henry Higgins, in Pygmalion,
act 2, The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces,
vol. 4, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1972).
QUOTATION: 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 you were in Heaven, where
there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
ATTRIBUTION: George Bernard Shaw (18561950), Anglo-Irish playwright,
critic. (First produced, in German, 1913). Henry Higgins, in Pygmalion,
act 5, The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces,
vol. 4, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1972).
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