Eliza at Mrs. Higgins's At-Home Day

From Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Eliza's first social trial at Mrs. Higgins's drawing room, where her perfect pronunciation contrasts hilariously with her shocking subject matter.
Act III

Eliza's notorious line 'Walk! Not bloody likely. I am going in a taxi'—a phrase that scandalized 1914 audiences and entered the language.

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Act III

Her aunt's gin: 'them she lived with would have killed her for a hat-pin, let alone a hat.'

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