Quotes from work

Pygmalion

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

“I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.”

“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.”

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

“Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable.”

“HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?
DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.”

“What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.”

“I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.”

“She has mischievious moments when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island…”

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

“Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.”

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