Pygmalion / My Fair Lady Quotes

“The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion / My Fair Lady

“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.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion / My Fair Lady

“I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion / My Fair Lady

“Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making
trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion / My Fair Lady

“No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion / My Fair Lady

“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.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion / My Fair Lady

“I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now youve made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else. I wish youd left me where you found me.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion / My Fair Lady