Quotes on Pygmalion

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

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

What is life but a series of inspired follies.

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.

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.

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

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