Top 35 Pygmalion's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. One by one most kids I knew quit drawing and never drew again. It left behind too much evidence.
Lynda Barry
#3. The ladies' fans opened with cracks like pistol shots, and were held up to block the stranger from view.
Frances Hardinge
#4. I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.
Franz Kafka
#5. The snow on their faces is so white that how the white patches on their faces, which once looked so white against their black, are a shade of yellow.
Lydia Davis
#7. That the Negroes were enslaved more than other races, and on a large scale, is evidently a result of their being, in contrast to other races, inferior in intelligence - which, however, does not justify such slavery
Arthur Schopenhauer
#8. There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things. Henry Higgins, Act V, Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
#9. 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
#10. Pygmalion formed an ivory maid, and longed for an informing soul. She, on the contrary, combined all the qualities of a hero's mind, and fate presented a statue in which she might enshrine them.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#11. 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
#13. The play you're referring to. It's Pygmalion. My Fair Lady is just its bastard offspring. I
Jojo Moyes
#14. Medicine had granted permission to a fantasy that men have never abandoned, a muddled version of what Pygmalion wanted - something between a real woman and a beautiful thing.
Siri Hustvedt
#15. Venus, taking pity on the artist Pygmalion when he fell hopelessly in love with his statue, granted his fondest wish and turned the statue into a beautiful woman, Galatea.
Michio Kaku
#16. A group of girls with their hair hanging loose over their shoulders, and the most strident voices imaginable, sold flowers at the foot of an equestrian statue, done in bronze by Thornycroft when the Empress was a young woman.
Willa Cather
#17. I got a horse for my wife. I thought it was a fair swap.
Bob Monkhouse
#18. 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
#19. What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
Dmitri Shostakovich
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
Seneca The Younger
#23. Love is an attempt to penetrate another being, but it can only be realized if the surrender is mutual.
Octavio Paz
#24. Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable.
George Bernard Shaw
#25. I've been shocked by film actors - 25 and under - having such confidence and cockiness to rewrite a scene. My background is more about the director being in control. It's all about yielding. It's an oddly submissive relationship in which you're moulded, Pygmalion-style.
Anne-Marie Duff
#26. The great secret ... is not having bad manners or good manners ... but having the same manner for all human souls.
George Bernard Shaw
#27. 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
#28. Eliza was my first name for two reasons. My dad was reading 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' which features the maid Eliza in it, when I was born. Then there was Eliza Doolittle from 'My Fair Lady' and 'Pygmalion.' My mum always loved the name, and I got called Eliza Doolittle a lot, so it stuck, basically.
Eliza Doolittle
#30. If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.
George Bernard Shaw
#32. It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
George Bernard Shaw
#33. I cannot refrain from doubting that there exist any genuine realizations of our deepest character except war and illness, those two infinities of nightmare.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#34. That hot, throbbing feeling.The one between your legs. I know it's there, sweetheart, and it needs me." He nipped at the inside of her arm. "Come with me now and I'll bring it screaming out of you.
Anonymous
#35. I've learned that everything happens for a reason," the yogi Krishnan told him. "Every event has a why and all adversity teaches us a lesson ... Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.
Robin S. Sharma
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