"An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him, George Bernard Shaw famously refused to permit any play of his "to be degraded into an operetta or set to any music except its own." Allowing his beloved Pygmalion to be supplanted by a comic opera was therefore unthinkable; yet Lerner and Loewe transformed it into My Fair...
The moment he talks he makes some other Englishman despise him." - Henry