Pygmalion Quotes:

I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.

- Zoe Kazan

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Creativity, Men, Pygmalion

If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3417, e-artnow

topic: Pygmalion, Appreciate, Ifs

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

topic: Friendship, Night, Pygmalion, Premieres, Inviting

What is life but a series of inspired follies.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (2016). “Pygmalion”, Xist Publishing

topic: Pygmalion, Inspired, What Is Life

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

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Pygmalion, Soul, Good Man, Bad Manners, Good Manners

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

- George Bernard Shaw

source: Pygmalion (1916) preface

topic: Hate, Pygmalion, Mouths

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.2523, e-artnow

topic: Pygmalion, Heaven, Soul, Bad Manners, Carriages

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Pygmalion”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

topic: Girl, Flower, Pygmalion, My Fair Lady

I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (2016). “Pygmalion”, p.59, Xist Publishing

topic: Flower, Pygmalion, Fit, My Fair Lady

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

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (1988). “Collected letters: 1926-1950”, Vintage

topic: Pygmalion, Not Good Enough, Talent

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

- George Bernard Shaw

source: Pygmalion (1916) act 2

topic: Women, Writing, Pygmalion

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

- George Bernard Shaw

source: Pygmalion (1916) preface

topic: Children, Communication, Pygmalion

Understand the "Pygmalion Effect": Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

- Warren G. Bennis

source: Source: bobmorris.biz

topic: Pygmalion, People, Leader, People Can Change

"What was the name of Pygmalion's sister?" She blinked, twice, obviously surprised. "Ummm," she said, keeping her eyes on me. "I don't know." Rogerson did," I told her. "Rogerson knew everything."

- Sarah Dessen

source: Sarah Dessen (2000). “Dreamland: A Novel”, Viking Childrens Books

topic: Eye, Pygmalion, Names

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

source: George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3332, e-artnow

topic: Art, Home, Successful, Didactic, Contention

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Success, Time, My Mistakes, Mistakes You've Made

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 Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Bible, Soul, Speech, My Fair Lady, Native Language

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

topic: Life, Women, Upset, Pygmalion

Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.

- I. F. Stone

topic: Fashion, Men, Race, Pygmalion

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Men, Hobbies, Pygmalion

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

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Self, Class, Morality, Middle Class, Live For Others

I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (2016). “Pygmalion”, p.29, Xist Publishing

topic: Selfish, Women, Jealous, Pygmalion

The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain

- Eliza Doolittle

topic: Rain, Spain, My Fair Lady, Pygmalion

A woman who utters such disgusting and depressing noise 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 Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible. Don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

- Rex Harrison

topic: Depressing, Soul, Speech, My Fair Lady, Native Language

I was not a very popular kid in high school, and I had this idea that the way that I dressed would change how liked I was. It was that kind of Pygmalion story. I think, ultimately that's probably why I became interested in fashion, its transformative power, and how it can change your identity.

- Joseph Altuzarra

topic: Fashion, School, Kids, Pygmalion