Pygmalion Quotes

• 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
  • Play
  • Successful
  • Europe

• 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
  • Night
  • Winston Churchill
  • Telegram

• I sang barber shop harmony and sort of got into performing. And it just came naturally. Then, when I was in college after the war, I did a play, Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw. And from then on, I knew that's what I wanted to do.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • War
  • College
  • George Bernard Shaw

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

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Friends
  • Pygmalion
  • Verbal music

• "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
  • Eyes
  • Knows
  • Said

• I did see - and it really struck me - the late, great Tim Pigott Smith and Michelle Dockery doing 'Pygmalion' at the Old Vic. That was amazing. I remember being rocked to the core by that.

  

  Harry Hadden-Paton
  • Pygmalion
  • Tim Pigott Smith
  • Michelle Dockery

• What's great about the play Pygmalion is that it's sort of two plays. It's the one simple trajectory of girl bettering herself. It's a bet; it's a dare. Will they get away with it? Basic seed: boom. And then it goes into a different direction.

  

  Harry Hadden-Paton
  • Plays
  • Pygmalion