"Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble? Making life means making trouble."
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Pygmalion by
George Bernard Shaw
"What is life but a series of inspired follies?"
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Pygmalion by
George Bernard Shaw
"Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby!"
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Pygmalion by
George Bernard Shaw
"I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle class morality."
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Pygmalion by
George Bernard Shaw
"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."
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Pygmalion by
George Bernard Shaw
"The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated."
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Pygmalion by
George Bernard Shaw
"I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else."
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Pygmalion by
George Bernard Shaw
"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."
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Pygmalion by
George Bernard Shaw
"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."
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Pygmalion by
George Bernard Shaw
"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."
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Pygmalion by
George Bernard Shaw