Pygmalion (1938)
Jean Cadell: Mrs. Pearce
Quotes
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Mrs. Pearce : You can't be a good girl on the inside if you are a dirty girl on the outside.
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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,