Pygmalion Quotes

Pygmalion Quote of the day

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

The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

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.

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

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

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.

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

What is life but a series of inspired follies.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.

I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

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.

"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."

Understand the "Pygmalion Effect": Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

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?

A leader's job is not to put greatness into people, but rather to recognize that it already exists, and to create an environment where that greatness can emerge and grow.

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two