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I don't want to talk grammar, I want to talk like a lady.

— George Bernard Shaw

More from George Bernard Shaw

  1. I wouldn't have ate it, only I'm too lady-like to take it out of my mouth.
  2. I heard your prayers Thank God it's all over!
  3. What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.
  4. You see, lots of the real people can't do it at all: they're such fools that they think style comes by nature to people in their position; …
  5. Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
  6. Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
  7. Ah-ah-ah-ah-ow-ow-oo-oo!!! I ain't dirty: I washed me face and hands afore I come, I did!
  8. I have to live for others and not for myself; that's middle-class morality.

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  • speech
  • language
  • manners
  • social norms

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