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Quotes from Pygmalion — George Bernard Shaw

1856–1950 Ireland

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17 quotes

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.

Pygmalion (1912)

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.

Pygmalion (1912)

I have to live for others and not for myself; that's middle-class morality.

Pygmalion (1912)

He ain't a copper just look at 'is boots!

Pygmalion (1912)

I heard your prayers Thank God it's all over!

Pygmalion (1912)

I wouldn't have ate it, only I'm too lady-like to take it out of my mouth.

Pygmalion (1912)

I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.

Pygmalion (1912)

I don't want to talk grammar, I want to talk like a lady.

Pygmalion (1912)

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

Pygmalion (1912)

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

Pygmalion (1912)

We want none of your Lisson Grove prudery here, young woman. You've got to learn to behave like a duchess.

Pygmalion (1913)

Independence? That's middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Pygmalion (1912)

Walk! Not bloody likely. I am going in a taxi.

Pygmalion (1912)

I ask you, what am I? I'm one of the undeserving poor: thats what I am. Think of what that means to a man.

Pygmalion (1912)

Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

Pygmalion (1912)

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ow-ow-oo-oo!!! I ain't dirty: I washed me face and hands afore I come, I did!

Pygmalion (1912)

You see, lots of the real people can't do it at all: they're such fools that they think style comes by nature to people in their position; and so they never learn. There's always something professional about doing a thing superlatively well.

Pygmalion (1912)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Bernard Shaw (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.