Higgins Quotes Flashcards
Draggletailed guttersnipe quote
Act 2 - “I could make a duchess of this draggle-tailed guttersnipe”
Profession and hobby
Act 1 “this is my profession, also my hobby”
Six miles
Act 1 “I can place any man within six miles”
Ungrateful and wicked
Act 2 “you’re an ungrateful, wicked girl”
Pebble
Act 2 mrs Pearce “you can’t take a girl up like that as if you we’re picking up a pebble on the beach”
Low, dirty
Act 2 “she’s so deliciously low, so horribly dirty”
Duchess, ambassador’s garden party
Act 2 “I could pass that girl off as a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party”
Walk over
Act 2 mrs Pearce “you can’t walk over everybody like this”
Happy, hobby
Act 1 “happy is a man who can make a living by his hobby”
Six months
Act 1 “i can make her speak properly in six months”
Submission
Act 2 “put into a state of complete submission to me”
Good deed, money, basket
Act 1 stage direction “throws a handful of money into the basket” done as an act of good deed to Eliza
