

“The fact of the matter is, the minute you get a mouthful of blue sky dancing across your taste buds there's no keeping you from it.”
― The Girl Who Could Fly
― The Girl Who Could Fly

“German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.”
― Pygmalion
― Pygmalion

“HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?
MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper - say on a canal barge...”
― Pygmalion
MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper - say on a canal barge...”
― Pygmalion

“The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.”
― The Scarlet Pimpernel
― The Scarlet Pimpernel

“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 Shakespear and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.”
― Pygmalion
― Pygmalion

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