Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable. - George Bernard Shaw

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

It is this consideration of other people or rather this cowardly fear of them which we call consideration that makes us the sentimental slaves we are. To consider you, as you call it, is to substitute your will for my own. How if it be a baser will than mine?

Despite her failure, she persisted, and one day sent Shaw a card inviting him to tea. It read: “Lady X will be at home Thursday between 4 and 6” . . . Shaw sent it back with the comment: “Mr. Bernard Shaw likewise.”