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  • I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else.

    Art   Home   Successful  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3332, e-artnow
  • What is life but a series of inspired follies.

    George Bernard Shaw (2016). “Pygmalion”, Xist Publishing
  • Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

  • 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.

    Fashion   Men   Race  
  • 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.

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

    Girl   Flower   Pygmalion  
    George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Pygmalion”, p.120, Simon and Schuster
  • 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 you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3417, e-artnow
  • I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.

    Flower   Pygmalion   Fit  
    George Bernard Shaw (2016). “Pygmalion”, p.59, Xist Publishing
  • If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

    George Bernard Shaw (1988). “Collected letters: 1926-1950”, Vintage
  • 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 (2016). “Pygmalion”, p.16, Xist Publishing
  • Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby

    Men   Pygmalion   Hobbies  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3342, e-artnow
  • I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.

    Selfish   Women   Jealous  
    George Bernard Shaw (2016). “Pygmalion”, p.29, Xist Publishing
  • 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.

    "Zoe Kazan’s LA Dream Girl". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 23, 2012.
  • It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

    Hate   Pygmalion   Mouths  
    Pygmalion (1916) preface
  • I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

    Pygmalion (1916) act 2
  • I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

    Self   Pygmalion   Class  
    Pygmalion (1916) act 5
  • "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."

    Eye   Pygmalion   Names  
    Sarah Dessen (2000). “Dreamland: A Novel”, Viking Childrens Books
  • I was not a very popular kid in high school, and I had this idea that the way that I dressed would change how liked I was. It was that kind of Pygmalion story. I think, ultimately that's probably why I became interested in fashion, its transformative power, and how it can change your identity.

    Fashion   School   Kids  
  • The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

  • 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.

    Pygmalion   Heaven   Soul  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.2523, e-artnow
  • Understand the "Pygmalion Effect": Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

    Source: bobmorris.biz
  • 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.

    Life   Women   Pygmalion  
    Pygmalion act 2 (1916)
  • The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain

    Rain   Pygmalion   Spain  
  • 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 (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3355, e-artnow
  • The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

    Pygmalion (1916) preface
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