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| "Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon." | George Bernard Shaw | Pygmalion |  |
| "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." | George Bernard Shaw | Pygmalion |  |
| "But you have no idea how frightfully interesting it is to take a human being and change her into a quite different human being by creating a new speech for her. It's filling up the deepest gulf that separates class from classand soul from soul." | George Bernard Shaw | Pygmalion |  |
| "I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else." | George Bernard Shaw | Pygmalion |  |
| " . . . the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated." | George Bernard Shaw | Pygmalion |  |
| "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." | George Bernard Shaw | Pygmalion |  |
| "I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle class morality." | George Bernard Shaw | Pygmalion |  |
| "Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby!" | George Bernard Shaw | Pygmalion |  |
| "What is life but a series of inspired follies?" | George Bernard Shaw | Pygmalion |  |
| "Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble? Making life means making trouble." | George Bernard Shaw | Pygmalion |  |