George Bernard Shaw

HIGGINS [coming off the piano restlessly] Oh, Lord knows! I suppose the woman wants to live her own life; and the man wants to live his; and each tries to drag the other on to the wrong track. One wants to go north and the other south; and the result is that both have to go east, though they both hate the east wind.

LIZA. I won't care for anybody that doesn't care for me.
HIGGINS. Commercial principles, Eliza.

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen

then a young man, lacked their sweetness of character: he was about as conciliatory

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

, the author of Spoken Sanscrit?

author of Higgins's Universal Alphabet

But as to Higgins, the only distinction he makes between men and women is that when he is neither bullying nor exclaiming to the heavens against some featherweight cross, he coaxes women as a child coaxes its nurse when it wants to get anything out of her.

But as to Higgins, the only distinction he makes between men and women is that when he is neither bullying nor exclaiming to the heavens against some featherweight cross, he coaxes women as a child coaxes its nurse when it wants to get anything out of her

But as to Higgins, the only distinction he makes between men and women is that when he is neither bullying nor exclaiming to the heavens against some featherweight cross, he coaxes women as a child coaxes its