I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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.
Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.
What is life but a series of inspired follies.
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
"What was the name of Pygmalion's sister?" She blinked, twice, obviously surprised. "Ummm," she said, keeping her eyes on me. "I don't know. " Rogerson did," I told her. "Rogerson knew everything. "
A woman who utters such disgusting and depressing noise has no right to be anywhere, no right to live. 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. Don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.
If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.
If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby
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 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.
The great secret. . . is not having bad manners or good manners. . . but having the same manner for all human souls.
I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.
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.
Understand the "Pygmalion Effect": Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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 difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.