Pygmalion

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

  Preface to PygmalionIn context

  • Education
  • Talking

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

  Preface to PygmalionIn context

  • Talking

• 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.

  Act II, spoken by HigginsIn context

  • Life & Death
  • Risk

• I don’t want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

  Act II, spoken by LizaIn context

  • Talking

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

  Act II, spoken by HigginsIn context

  • Advice
  • Time

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

  Act II, spoken by DoolittleIn context

  • Money
  • Morality

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

  Act III, spoken by LizaIn context

  • Comedy

• There’s always something professional about doing a thing superlatively well.

  Act IV, spoken by PickeringIn context

  • Work

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

  Act VIn context

  • Morality

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

  Act V, spoken by HigginsIn context

  • Freedom
  • Friendship

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