My Fair Lady Quotes

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Girl, Flower, Pygmalion

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

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• 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

  Flower, Pygmalion, Fit

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

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• I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Fire, Soul, Sparks

  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.2524, e-artnow

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• 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

  Bible, Pygmalion, Native Language

  George Bernard Shaw (2016). “Pygmalion”, p.16, Xist Publishing

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• The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain

  Eliza Doolittle

  Rain, Pygmalion, Spain

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• I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before.

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Wings, Done, Thousand

  "I Could Have Danced All Night" (song) (1956)

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• There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Children, Writing, Years

  "Why Can't the English?" (song) (1956)

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• Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

  George Bernard Shaw

  Character, Men, Mets

  1913 Higgins to Pickering. Pygmalion, act 2.

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• 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

  Depressing, Pygmalion, Native Language

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• Why can't a woman be more like a man?

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Sex, Men

  "A Hymn to Him" (song) (1956)

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• I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! Let's have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!.

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Morning, Church, Bells

  "Get Me to the Church on Time" (song) (1956)

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• Higgins: I'm an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do precisely what he wants. An average man am I, of no eccentric whim, Who likes to live his life, free of strife Doing whatever he thinks is best for him, Well, just an ordinary man

  Rex Harrison

  Life, Men, Thinking

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• Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Children, Writing, Speak

  "Why Can't the English?" (song) (1956)

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• Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.

  Kirk Douglas

  Funny, Dog, Sweet

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• Why can't a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can't a woman be like that?

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Winning, Men, Squares

  'My Fair Lady' (1956) 'A Hymn to Him' (music by Frederick Loewe)

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• In almost every musical ever written, there's a place that's usually about the third song of the evening - sometimes it's the second, sometimes it's the fourth, but it's quite early - and the leading lady usually sits down on something; sometimes it's a tree stump in Brigadoon, sometimes it's under the pillars of Covent Garden in My Fair Lady, or it's a trash can in Little Shop of Horrors... but the leading lady sits down on something and sings about what she wants in life. And the audience falls in love with her and then roots for her to get it for the rest of the night.

  Howard Ashman

  Song, Falling In Love, Night

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• I would like to do a romantic comedy, but not a romantic comedy that is cheesy. I want to do an old romantic comedy like Roman Holiday or My Fair Lady.

  Sami Gayle

  Holiday, Cheesy, Want

  "Interview with Lucy Fry and Sami Gayle On Enrolling in Vampire Academy". Interview with Matthew Schuchman, www.denofgeek.com. February 06, 2014.

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• I had two chances to fail [working for Disney]. The first one, they said was "too juvenile." The second one was,they give you general areas to work in. They said, "Set 'My Fair Lady' in ancient Egypt."I came up with this idea about an Egyptian princess, and I gave her, as a sidekick, a little scarab. I had a telephone meeting with the executive "handling" me, and he said, "I looked over the notes. Very cute. But lose the beetle.Beetles don't talk." Well, how do you answer that? I said, "Excuse me just a moment, I've got a teacup calling me on the other line."

  Charles Busch

  Cute, Princess, Ideas

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Wayside school is falling down, falling down, falling down, Wayside school is falling down my fair lady. Kids go splat as they hit the ground, hit the ground, hit the ground, Kids go splat as the hit the ground my fair lady . Broken bones and blood and gore, blood and gore, blood and gore, Broken bones and blood and gore my fair lady. We don't have to go to school no more, school no more, school no more, We don't have to go to school no more my fair lady.

  Louis Sachar

  Fall, School, Kids

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• I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want certain things and they're in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that. More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens. I don't know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady's, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts. If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I'd have someone enter with a machine gun.

  Adam Rapp

  Character, Writing, Gun

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