'Pygmalion' Quotes Flashcards
“Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf…
“Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf… You incarnate insult to the English language.”
“This desperate attempt to represent
“This desperate attempt to represent her dialect without a phonetic alphabet must be abandoned as unintelligible outside London.”
“You see this creature with her kerbstone English:
“You see this creature with her kerbstone English: The English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days.”
“But you have no idea how frightfully interesting it is to
“But you have no idea how frightfully interesting it is to take a human being and change her into a quite different human being by creating a new speech for her.”
“I shall make a duchess
“I shall make a duchess of this draggletailed guttersnipe.”
“You see, we’re all savages, more or less.
“You see, we’re all savages, more or less. We’re supposed to be civilised 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?”
“Pickering: Shall we ask this
“Pickering: Shall we ask this baggage to sit down, or shall we throw her out of the window?”
“…the difference between
“…the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.”
“I sold flowers.
“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.”
