Celebrity Playhouse (TV Series)
Pygmalion (1981)
Robert Powell: Professor Henry Higgins
Quotes
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Professor Henry Higgins : Eliza, you are to live here for the next six months, learning how to speak beautifully like a lady in a florist's shop. If you are good and do whatever you're told, you shall sleep in a proper bedroom and have lots to eat and money to buy chocolates and take rides in taxis. If you are naughty and idle, you will sleep in the back kitchen among the black beetles and be walloped by Mrs. Pearce with a broomstick. At the end of six months you shall go to Buckingham Palace in a carriage, beautifully dressed. If the King finds out you're not a lady, you will be taken by the police to the Tower of London where your head will be cut off as a warning to other presumptuous flower girls. If you are not found out, you shall be given a present of seven-and-sixpence to start life with as a lady in a shop. If you refuse this offer you will be a most ungrateful, wicked girl and the angels will weep for you.
[to Pickering]
Professor Henry Higgins : Now, satisfied Pickering?
[to Mrs. Pearce]
Professor Henry Higgins : Can I put it more plainly and fairly than that, Mrs. Pearce?
