“She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.”
― Pygmalion
― Pygmalion
“HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?
DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.”
― Pygmalion
DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.”
― Pygmalion
“HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly.
NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be spoken? Only foreigners who have been taught to speak it speak it well.”
― Pygmalion
NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be spoken? Only foreigners who have been taught to speak it speak it well.”
― Pygmalion
“Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable.”
― Pygmalion
― Pygmalion
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