Pygmalion (1938)

Wendy Hiller: Eliza Doolittle

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• Eliza Doolittle : Walk? Not bloody likely. I'm going in a taxi.

• Eliza Doolittle : I washed me face and hands before I come, I did.

• Eliza Doolittle : There's lots of women has to make their husbands drunk to make them fit to live with.

• [repeated line] 

  Eliza Doolittle : I'm a good girl, I am!

• Eliza Doolittle : What's to become of me?

  Prof. Henry Higgins : Oh, so that's what's worrying you, is it? Ooh, you'll settle down somewhere or other. But I hadn't quite realized... that you were going away.

• Eliza Doolittle : You wanted me back only to put up with your tempers, and pick up your slippers, and fetch and carry for you.

  Prof. Henry Higgins : I haven't said I want you back at all.

  Eliza Doolittle : Oh, indeed, then, what are we talking about?

  Prof. Henry Higgins : About *you,* not about me. If you come back to me I shall treat you just the same as I've always treated you. I can't change my nature, and I don't intend to change my manners. My manners are exactly the same as Colonel Pickering's!

  Eliza Doolittle : That's not true. He treats a flower girl as if she were a duchess.

  Prof. Henry Higgins : I treat a duchess as if she were a flower girl!