Yes I know it's a top 5 blog, but it was all I could do to narrow down my favorite lines to 10. And that's not even including song lyrics!! But I won't get started on those tonight... Here are my top 10 favorite lines from
My Fair Lady!!!
10) [Col. Pickering] You mean to say you would sell your daughter for 50 pounds? Have you no morals, man?
[Alfy Doolittle] No, no... can' afford 'em!
9) [Prof. Higgins] Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf!
[Col. Pickering] ...Does it occur to you, Higgins, that the girl has some feelings?
[Prof. Higgins] Oh no, no, no...
8) [Prof. Higgins] You'll get much further with the Lord if you learn not to offend His ears.
7) [Prof. Higgins] Hang Mrs. Pearce, hang the coffee, and hang
you!! And hang my own folly for having lavished my hard-earned knowledge and the treasure of my regard and intimacy on the heartless gutter-snipe!
6) [Prof. Higgins] Very well. If the Higgins oxygen burns up her little lungs, let her seek the stuffiness that suits her. She's an owl sickened by a few days of my sunshine... I can do without her, I can do without anyone! I have my own gift! My own spark of divine fire!
5) [Eliza] So go back in your shell, I can do very well without you.
[Prof. Higgins] I know you can, I told you you could. You never wondered, I suppose, if I could get along without
you?
[Eliza] ...You have my voice on your gramophone, you can turn it on whenever you get lonely. It has no feelings to hurt.
[Prof. Higgins] I can't turn your soul on...
4) *I know this is probably a little out of order... but this whole scene at Ascot is probably my favorite of the entire play! So just bear with me....*
[Eliza] And what become of her new straw hat that should have come to me? Somebody pinched it!!
[Mrs. Eynsford-Hill] You surely don't believe your aunt was
killed, do you!
[Eliza] ...Them she lived with would have killed her for a hat pin, let alone a hat. Everyone believed she was dead, except my father. He kept ladeling gin down her throat. She came to so sudden that she bit the bowl right off the spoon. Now what call would a woman with that strength in her have to die of influenza, when she come through diptheria right enough the year before? Fairly blue with it she was...And what I always say is, them that pinched it, done her in.
[Mrs. Eynsford-Hill] Well it can't have been right for your father to be ladeling spirits down her throat - it might have killed her!
[Eliza] Not her. Gin was mother's milk to her. Besides, he poured so much down his own throat that he knew the good of it.
[Random guy] Do you mean he drank?
[Eliza] Drank? Something chronic! ...What are you sniggering at?
[Freddy] It's the new small talk, you do it so awfully well.
[Eliza] If I was doing it proper, then what was you laughing at? Have I said something I oughtn't?
3) [Col. Pickering] Now listen here, good man, I'm not pleased with the tenure of that question! What the girl does here is OUR affair - YOUR affair is to get her back here so she can continue doing it!!
2) [Col. Pickering] You know what I'm talking of. Are you a man of good character where women are concerned?
[Prof. Higgins] Have you EVER met a man of good character where women are concerned?!
1) [Eliza] 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...I know I'm a common, ignorant girl and you, a book-learned gentleman, but I'm not dirt under your feet.
