Pygmalion Shaw Quotes & Sayings

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

Fate is a lazy man's excuse for avoiding curiosity. — Brian Farrey

If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary. — George Bernard Shaw

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. — George Bernard Shaw

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. — George Bernard Shaw

The weak may not be admired and hero-worshipped; but they are by no means disliked or shunned; and they never seem to have the least difficulty in marrying people who are too good for them. They may fail in emergencies; but life is not one long emergency: it is mostly a string of situations for which no exceptional strength is needed, and with which even rather weak people can cope if they have a stronger partner to help them out. — George Bernard Shaw

How can she? She's incapable of understanding anything. Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it? — George Bernard Shaw

Making Life means making trouble — George Bernard Shaw

Mami answers and her voice is hoarse and thin, and i think fight me better than this. — Helen Oyeyemi

There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things. Henry Higgins, Act V, Pygmalion — George Bernard Shaw

Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable. — George Bernard Shaw

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. — George Bernard Shaw

If an imaginative boy has a sufficiently rich mother who has intelligence, personal grace, dignity of character without harshness, and a cultivated sense of the best art of her time to enable her to make her house beautiful, she sets a standard for him against which very few women can struggle, besides effecting for him a disengagement of his affections, his sense of beauty, and his idealism from his specifically sexual impulses. — George Bernard Shaw

I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady. — George Bernard Shaw

The great secret ... is not having bad manners or good manners ... but having the same manner for all human souls. — George Bernard Shaw

Great love leaves little doubt. — Bob Goff

Ideas can be willed, and the imagination is their engine. — Theodore Levitt

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby — George Bernard Shaw

Simple doesn't have to mean easy. — Philipp Keel