George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion (1913)

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

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.

George Bernard Shaw
The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty.... Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

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

George Bernard Shaw
He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

George Bernard Shaw
I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

George Bernard Shaw
Pickering: Have you no morals, man?
Doolittle: Can't afford them, Governor.

George Bernard Shaw
What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

George Bernard Shaw
I'm one of the undeserving poor…up agen middle-class morality all the time…What is middle-class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

George Bernard Shaw
What's a five-pound note to you? And what's Eliza to me? … You give me what I ask you, Governor: not a penny more, and not a penny less.

George Bernard Shaw