George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion Quotations

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

If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

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.

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.

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.

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.

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 thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

What is life but a series of inspired follies...

I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.

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

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

Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

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