If you can't appreciate what you've got, you'd better get what you can appreciate.
 George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1913). copy citation

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Author George Bernard Shaw
Source Pygmalion
Topic frustration satisfaction
Date 1913
Language English
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“You find me cold, unfeeling, selfish, don't you? Very well: be off with you to the sort of people you like. Marry some sentimental hog or other with lots of money, and a thick pair of lips to kiss you with and a thick pair of boots to kick you with. If you can't appreciate what you've got, you'd better get what you can appreciate.
LIZA [desperate] Oh, you are a cruel tyrant. I can't talk to you: you turn everything against me: I'm always in the wrong. But you know very well all the time that you're nothing but a bully. You know I can't go back to the gutter, as you call it, and that I have no real friends in the world but you and the Colonel.” source

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