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My Fair Lady (film) Quotes

My Fair Lady (film) is a television program that appeared on TV in 1970 . My Fair Lady ended its run in 1970.

It features Jack L. Warner as producer, Music:, Frederick Loewe, Lyrics:, and Alan Jay Lerner in charge of musical score, and Harry Stradling as head of cinematography.

My Fair Lady (film) is distributed by Warner Bros. Picturesefn and The rights of the film were reverted to CBS in 1971 and in 2009, currently distributed by Paramount Pictures..

The cast includes: [[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]] as Eliza Doolittle, Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins, Isobel Elsom as Mrs. Eynsford-Hill, Gladys Cooper as Mrs. Higgins, Moyna Macgill as Lord Boxington, Moyna Macgill as Lady Boxington, Jeremy Brett as Freddy Eynsford-Hill, Wilfrid Hyde-White as Colonel Hugh Pickering, Stanley Holloway as Alfred P. Doolittle, Queenie Leonard as Cockney, Theodore Bikel as Zoltan Karpathy, and Mona Washbourne as Mrs. Pearce.

My Fair Lady (film) Quotes

Theodore Bikel as Zoltan Karpathy

  • (Lady at Ball) "That young woman with Colonel Pickering, find out who she is."
  • (Theodore Bikel) "With pleasure."

Jeremy Brett as Freddy Eynsford-Hill

  • (Jeremy Brett) "It's the new small talk. You do it so awfully well."
  • (Jeremy Brett) "Darling."
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "Freddy, what ever are you doing here?"
  • (Jeremy Brett) "Nothing. I spend most of my nights here. It's the only place where I'm happy."
  • (Jeremy Brett) "Don't laugh at me, Miss Doolittle."
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "Don't you call me 'Miss Doolittle', do ya hear? Eliza's good enough for me."
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "Oh, Freddy, you don't think I'm a heartless guttersnipe, do you?"
  • (Jeremy Brett) "Darling, how could you imagine such a thing? You know how I feel. I've written two and three times a day telling you. Sheets and sheets."
  • (Jeremy Brett) "I have often walked down this street before; but the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before. All at once am I several stories high, knowing I'm on the street where you live -- Are there lilac trees in the heart of town? Can you hear a lark in any other part of town? Does enchantment pour out of ev'ry door? No, it's just on the street where you live. And oh, the towering feeling, just to know somehow you are near -- The overpowering feeling, that any second you may suddenly appear. People stop and stare; they don't bother me. For there's nowhere else on earth that I would rather be. Let the time go by, I won't care if I can be here on the street where you live."

[[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]] as Eliza Doolittle

  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "I could have danced all night."
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "I ain't done nothin' wrong by speaking to the gentleman. I've a right to sell flowers if I keep off the kerb. I'm a respectable girl: so help me, I never spoke to him 'cept so far as to buy a flower off me."
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "Lots of chocolate for me to eat. / Lots of coal makin' lots of heat / Warm face, warm hands, warm feet / Oh, wouldn't it be loverly?"
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "I sold flowers; I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me, I'm not fit to sell anything else."
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she is treated."
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "You oughta be stuffed with nails, you ought."
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "I ain't dirty. I washed my face and hands before I come, I did."
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "What's to become of me, what's to become of me?"
  • (Rex Harrison) "You know Eliza, you might marry. Not all men are confirmed old bachelors like me and the colonel, most are the marrying sort. And you're not bad looking, you might even be what I call atractive. But not now. You've been crying at look like the very Devil himself."
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "There can't be any feeling between the likes of me and the likes of you."
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "Here are your slippers. There --"
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "And there."
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "Take your slippers, and may you NEVER have a day's luck with them."
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "I'm a good girl, I am."
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "Come on, Dover. Come on, Dover. Move your bloomin' arse."

Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins

  • (Rex Harrison) "I know your head aches; I know you're tired; I know your nerves are as raw as meat in a butcher's window. But think what you're trying to accomplish. Think what you're dealing with. The majesty and grandeur of the English language, it's the greatest possession we have. The noblest thoughts that ever flowed through the hearts of men are contained in its extraordinary, imaginative, and musical mixtures of sounds. And that's what you've set yourself out to conquer Eliza. And conquer it you will."
  • (Rex Harrison) "By George, she's got it. By George she's got it. Now once again, where does it rain?"
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "On the plain, on the plain."
  • (Rex Harrison) "And where's that soggy plain?"
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "In Spain, in Spain."
  • (Rex Harrison) "Oh, Pickering, for God's sake stop being dashed and do something."
  • (Rex Harrison) "Damn Mrs. Pearce; damn the coffee; and damn you."
  • (Rex Harrison) "Women are irrational, that's all there is to that. Their heads are full of cotton, hay, and rags. They're nothing but exasperating, irritating, vacillating, calculating, agitating, maddening and infuriating hags."
  • (Rex Harrison) "The French don't care what they do actually, as long as they pronounce it properly."
  • (Rex Harrison) "You impudent hussy."
  • (Rex Harrison) "Marry Freddy. What an infantile idea, what a heartless, wicked, brainless thing to do. She'll regret it. She'll regret it. It's doomed before they even take the vow."
  • (Rex Harrison) "I can see her now, "Mrs. Freddy Einsford-Hill," in a wretched little flat above a store. I can see her now. Not a penny in the till, and a bill-collector beating at the door. She'll try to teach the things I taught her -- and end up selling flowers instead. Begging for her bread and water. While her husband has his breakfast in bed. In a year or so, when she's prematurely gray, and the blossom in her cheek has turned to chalk, she'll come home, and lo. He'll have upped and run away with a social climbing heiress from New York. Poor Eliza. How simply frightful. How humiliating. How delightful."
  • (Rex Harrison) "Would I run off and never tell me where I'm going?"
  • (Rex Harrison) "By George, she's got it. BY GEORGE, SHE'S GOT IT."
  • (Rex Harrison) "How poignant it will be on that inevitable night, when she shows up on my door in tears and rags. Miserable and lonely, repentant and contrite. Shall I take her in, or hurl her to the wolves? Give her kindness, or the treatment she deserves? Will I take her back, or THROW THE BAGGAGE OUT? Well, I'm a most forgiving man. The sort who never could, ever would, take a position and staunchly never budge. A most forgiving man -- But, I shall NEVER take her back. If she were crawling on her KNEES. Let her promise to atone, let her shiver, let her moan, I'll slam the door and let the hellcat FREEZE. Marry Freddy. HA."
  • (Rex Harrison) "But I'm so used to hear her say, "Good morning" every day -- Her joys, her woes, her highs, her lows, are second nature to me now, like breathing out and breathing in -- I'm very grateful she's a woman, and so easy to forget. Rather like a habit one can always break -- And yet -- I've grown accustomed to the trace -- of something in the air -- Accustomed -- to her -- face."
  • (Rex Harrison) "The question is not whether I've treated you rudely but whether you've ever heard me treat anyone else better."
  • (Rex Harrison) "Mother."
  • (Gladys Cooper) "What is it, Henry? What's happened?"
  • (Rex Harrison) "She's gone."
  • (Gladys Cooper) "Well, of course, dear, what did you expect?"
  • (Rex Harrison) "What -- what am I to do?"
  • (Gladys Cooper) "Do without, I suppose."
  • (Rex Harrison) "And so I shall. If the Higgins oxygen burns up her little lungs, let her seek some stuffiness that suits her. She's an owl sickened by a few days of my sunshine. Very well, let her go, I can do without her. I can do without anyone. I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire."
  • (Gladys Cooper) "Bravo, Eliza."
  • (Rex Harrison) "Why can't a woman be more like a man?"
  • (Rex Harrison) "You see, the great secret, Eliza, is not a question of good manners or bad manners, or any particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls. The question is not whether I treat you rudely, but whether you've ever heard me treat anyone else better."
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "I don't care how you treat me. I don't mind your swearing at me. I shouldn't mind a black eye; I've had one before this. But I won't be passed over."
  • (Rex Harrison) "Well then, get out of my way, for I won't stop for you. You talk about me as though I were a motor bus."
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "So you are a motor bus. All bounce and go, and no consideration for anybody. But I can get along without you. Don't you think I can't."
  • (Rex Harrison) "I know you can. I told you you could."
  • (Rex Harrison) "You've never wondered, I suppose, whether -- whether I could get along without you."
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "Well, you have my voice on your phonograph. When you feel lonesome without me you can turn it on. It has no feelings to hurt."
  • (Rex Harrison) "I -- I can't turn your soul on."
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "Ooh, you are a devil. You can twist the heart in a girl the same way some fellows twist her arms to hurt her."
  • (Rex Harrison) "There even are places where English completely disappears; in America they haven't used it for years."
  • (Rex Harrison) "Eliza? Where the devil are my slippers?"
  • (Rex Harrison) "You might marry, you know. You see, Eliza, all men are not confirmed old bachelors like myself and the Colonel. Most men are the marrying sort, poor devils. And you're not bad-looking; you're really quite a pleasure to look at sometimes. Not now, of course, when you've been crying, you look like the very devil; but when you're all right, and quite yourself, you're what I would call -- attractive."
  • (Rex Harrison) "Eliza, you are to stay here for the next six months learning to speak beautifully, like a lady in a florist's shop. If you work hard and do as you're told, you shall sleep in a proper bedroom, have lots to eat, and money to buy chocolates and go for rides in taxis. But if you are naughty and idle, you shall sleep in the back kitchen amongst the black beetles, and be wolloped by Mrs. Pearce with a broomstick. At the end of six months you will be taken to Buckingham Palace, in a carriage, beautifully dressed. If the king finds out you are not a lady, you will be taken to the Tower of London, where your head will be cut off as a warning to other presumptuous flower girls. But if you are not found out, you shall have a present -- of, ah -- seven and six to start life with as a lady in a shop. If you refuse this offer, you will be the most ungrateful, wicked girl, and the angels will weep for you."
  • (Rex Harrison) "May I ask, do you complain of your treatment here?"
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "No."
  • (Rex Harrison) "Has anyone behaved badly? Colonel Pickering, Mrs. Pearce?"
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "No."
  • (Rex Harrison) "You certainly don't pretend that I have treated you badly?"
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "No."
  • (Rex Harrison) "Damn, damn, damn, DAMN."
  • (Rex Harrison) "I've grown accustomed to her face. She almost makes the day begin. I've grown accustomed to the tune that she whistles night and noon. Her smiles, her frowns, her ups, her downs, are second nature to me now, like breathing out and breathing in -- I was serenely independent and content before we met. Surely I could always be that way again -- And yet -- I've grown accustomed to her looks, accustomed to her voice, accustomed -- to her -- face."
  • (Rex Harrison) "Have some chocolates, Eliza."
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "'Ow do I know what might be in 'em? I've 'eard o' girls bein' drugged by the likes o' you."
  • (Rex Harrison) "Pledge of good faith. I'll take one half --"
  • (Rex Harrison) "And you take the other. You'll have boxes of them, barrels of them. You'll live on them, eh?"
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "I wouldn't've et it, only I'm too ladylike to take it out o' me mouth."
  • (Rex Harrison) "Think of it, Eliza. Think of chocolates. And taxis --. And gold. And diamonds."
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "Ah-ah-ah-ow-ow-oo. I don't want no gold and no diamonds. I'm a good girl, I am."
  • (Rex Harrison) "Damn, damn, damn, damn."
  • (Rex Harrison) "Shall we ask this baggage to sit down or shall we just throw her out of the window?"
  • (Rex Harrison) "By George, Eliza, the streets will be strewn with the bodies of men shooting themselves for your sake before I'm done with you."
  • (Rex Harrison) "She's so deliciously low. So horribly dirty."

Mona Washbourne as Mrs. Pearce

  • (Mona Washbourne) "Here's the mail, sir."
  • (Rex Harrison) "Well pay the bills, and say "No" to the invitations."

Isobel Elsom as Mrs. Eynsford-Hill

  • (Isobel Elsom) "Don't just stand there, Freddy, go and find a cab."
  • (Jeremy Brett) "All right, I'll get it, I'll get it."

Gladys Cooper as Mrs. Higgins

  • (Gladys Cooper) "Where's the girl now?"
  • (Rex Harrison) "She's being pinned. Some of the clothes we bought her didn't quite fit. I told Pickering we should have taken her with us."
  • (Gladys Cooper) "How ever did you learn good manners with my son around?"
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "It was very difficult. I should never have known how ladies and gentlemen really behaved, if it hadn't been for Colonel Pickering. He always showed what he thought and felt about me as if I were something better than a common flower girl. You see, Mrs. Higgins, apart from the things one can pick up, the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she is treated. I shall always be a common flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me like a common flower girl, and always will. But I know that I shall always be a lady to Colonel Pickering, because he always treats me like a lady, and always will."
  • (Gladys Cooper) "Henry. What a disagreeable surprise."

Wilfrid Hyde-White as Colonel Hugh Pickering

  • (Wilfrid Hyde-White) "I'll have you know, Doolittle, that Mr. Higgins' intentions are entirely honorable."
  • (Stanley Holloway) "Oh, 'course they are, guv'nor. If I thought they wasn't, I'd ask fifty."
  • (Rex Harrison) "You mean to say you'd sell your daughter for fifty pounds?"
  • (Wilfrid Hyde-White) "Have you NO morals, man?"
  • (Stanley Holloway) "Nah. Nah, can't afford 'em, guv'nor. Neither could you, if you was as poor as me."
  • (Wilfrid Hyde-White) "Are you a man of good character where women are concerned?"
  • (Rex Harrison) "Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?"
  • (Wilfrid Hyde-White) "Yes, very frequently."
  • (Rex Harrison) "Well, I haven't. I find that the moment a woman makes friends with me she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damn nuisance. And I find that the moment I make friends with a woman I become selfish and tyrannical. So here I am, a confirmed old bachelor and likely to remain so."
  • (Wilfrid Hyde-White) "No, she's no relation, no. What? Well, just let's call her a "good friend", shall we? I beg your pardon. Listen to me, my man, I don't like the tenor of that question; what we do with her is our affair; your affair is bringing her back so we can continue doing it."
  • (Wilfrid Hyde-White) "Higgins, at a time like this, it's positively indecent that you don't need a glass of port."
  • (Wilfrid Hyde-White) "Well, I'm dashed."

Queenie Leonard as Cockney

  • (Queenie Leonard) "We've got a bloomin' heiress in our midst. Will you be needing a butler, Eliza?"
  • ([[Henry Daniell][Audrey Hepburn]]) "Well you won't do."

Stanley Holloway as Alfred P. Doolittle

  • (Stanley Holloway) "The old bloke died and left me four thousand pounds a year in his bloomin' will. Who asked him to make a gentleman out of me? I was happy. I was free. I touched pretty nigh everyone for money when I wanted it, same as I touched him. Now, I'm tied neck and heels, and everybody touches me. A year ago, I hadn't a relation in the world except one or two who wouldn't speak to me. Now, I've fifty, and not a decent week's wages amongst the lot of 'em. Oh, I have to live for others now, not for myself. Middle-class morality."
  • (Stanley Holloway) "I knew she had a career in front of 'er."
  • (Stanley Holloway) "What am I? I ask you, what am I? I'm one of the underserving poor, that's what I am. Now, think what that means to a man. It means he's up against middle-class morality for all the time. If there's anything going, and I puts in for a bit of it, it's always the same story: you're undeserving, so you can't have it. But, my needs is as great as the most deserving widows that ever got money out of six different charities in one week for the death of the same husband. Heh, I don't need LESS than a deserving man, I need MORE. I don't eat less hearty than he does, and I drink -- oh, a lot more. I'm playing straight with you. I ain't pretending to be deserving -- no -- I'm undeserving, and I mean to go on being undeserving. I like it, and that's the truth. But, will you take advantage of a man's nature to do him out of the price of his own daughter, what he's brought up, fed and clothed by the sweat of his brow till she's growed big enough to be -- interesting to you two gentlemen? Well, is five pounds unreasonable? I put it to you -- and I leave it to you."

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