# Pygmalion

- Author: [George Bernard Shaw](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw.md)
- Quotes: 16
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/pygmalion

## Quotes

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/pygmalion/what-is-life.md)

Topics: [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md)

> The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/pygmalion/the-english-have.md)

Topics: [words](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/words.md)

> Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/pygmalion/time-enough-to-think.md)

Topics: [the future](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-future.md)

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/pygmalion/women-upset-everything.md)

Topics: [women](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women.md)

> Ah-ah-ah-ah-ow-ow-oo-oo!!! I ain't dirty: I washed me face and hands afore I come, I did!

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/pygmalion/ah-ah-ah-ah-ow-ow-oo-oo-i-aint.md)

> Walk! Not bloody likely. I am going in a taxi.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/pygmalion/walk-not-bloody.md)

Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md)

> I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/pygmalion/i-aint-such.md)

Topics: [children](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/children.md)

> It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/pygmalion/it-is-impossible.md)

Topics: [society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md)

> I heard your prayers Thank God it's all over!

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/pygmalion/i-heard-your.md)

> You see, lots of the real people can't do it at all: they're such fools that they think style comes by nature to people in their position; and so they never learn. There's always something professional about doing a thing superlatively well.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/pygmalion/you-see-lots.md)

Topics: [science](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/science.md), [talent](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/talent.md)

> I don't want to talk grammar, I want to talk like a lady.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/pygmalion/i-dont-want.md)

Topics: [words](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/words.md)

> I have to live for others and not for myself; that's middle-class morality.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/pygmalion/i-have-to-live.md)

Topics: [morality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality.md)

> He ain't a copper just look at 'is boots!

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/pygmalion/he-aint-a-copper.md)

> I wouldn't have ate it, only I'm too lady-like to take it out of my mouth.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/pygmalion/i-wouldnt-have.md)

Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md)

> I ask you, what am I? I'm one of the undeserving poor: thats what I am. Think of what that means to a man.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/pygmalion/i-ask-you.md)

Topics: [society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md)

> Independence? That's middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/pygmalion/independence-thats-middle-class.md)

Topics: [society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md), [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md)