Pygmalion 11 Quotes

Question 1

Pygmalion
(Eliza/Act 1/Character)

Answer 1

“He’s no right to take away my character. My character is the same to me as any lady’s.”

Question 2

Pygmalion
(Eliza/Act 4/Lady/Not Fit)

Answer 2

“We were above that at the corner of Tottenham Court Road … I sold flowers. I didn’t sell myself. Now you’ve made a lady of me I’m not fit to sell anything else. I wish you’d left me where you found me.”

Question 3

Pygmalion
(Higgins/Act 1/Kerbstone/Duchess)

Answer 3

“You see this creature with her kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days. Well, sir, in three months I could pass that girl off as a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party.”

Question 4

Pygmalion
(Eliza/Act 4/Don’t care)

Answer 4

“You dont care. I know you dont care. You wouldnt care if I was dead. I’m nothing to you - not so much as them slippers.”

Question 5

Pygmalion
(Mrs Higgins/Act 3/Babies)

Answer 5

“You certainly are a pretty pair of babies, playing with your live doll,”

Question 5

Pygmalion
(Higgins/Act 3/Savages/Civilized)

Answer 5

“You see, we’re all savages, more or less. We’re supposed to be civilized and cultured- to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names?”

Question 6

Pygmalion
(Doolittle/Act 4/Gentleman)

Answer 6

“It’s making a gentleman of me that I object to. Who asked him to make a gentleman of me? I was happy. I was free. …Now I am worrited; tied neck and heels; and everybody touches me for money.”

Question 7

Pygmalion
(Notetaker/Act 1/Long Quote/Depressing/Live)

Answer 7

“A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds 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 Shakespear and Milton and The Bible; and don’t sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.”
(obviously not entire quote in one go)

Question 8

Pygmalion
(Stage Directions/Act 1/Rain)

Answer 8

“torrents of heavy summer rain, cab whistles blowing franticly in all directions”

Question 9

Pygmalion
(Stage Directions/Act 3 Opening/Oil paintings)

Answer 9

“a few good oil paintings from the exhibitions in Grosvenor Gallery thirty years ago are on the walls” -Mrs Higgins home

Question 10

Pygmalion
(Stage Directions/Act 3/Eliza/Ordeal/Dress)

Answer 10

“Eliza passes through. She is so intent on her ordeal that she walks like a somnambulist in a desert instead of a debutante in a fashionable crowd. They stop talking to look at her, admiring her dress, her jewels, and her stangely attractive self.”