Pygmalion (1938)

Jean Cadell: Mrs. Pearce

Quotes 

• Mrs. Pearce : You can't be a good girl on the inside if you are a dirty girl on the outside.

• Colonel Pickering : Higgins, excuse the straight question, but are you a man of good character where women are concerned?

  Professor Henry Higgins : Have you ever known a man of good character where women are concerned?

  Colonel Pickering : Yes, very frequently.

  Professor Henry Higgins : Well, I haven't! I find...

  Mrs. Pearce : Breakfast is ready, sir

  Professor Henry Higgins : I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, and a confounded nuisance. So I'm a confirmed old bachelor, and likely to remain one. Coffee?

  Colonel Pickering : Thanks. You know what I mean. I hope it's understood that no advantage is to be taken of her position.

  Professor Henry Higgins : What? That thing? Sacred, I assure you! I've taught scores of American millionairesses to speak English. The best looking women in the world. I'm seasoned. They might just as well be blocks of wood,