Mendoza Monologue from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy

From Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

male · philosophical · 55 sec

No, sir: she was not an earl's daughter. Photography, reproduced by the half-tone process, has made me familiar with the appearance of the daughters of the English peerage; and I can honestly say that I would have sold the lot, faces, dowries, clothes, titles, and all, for a smile from this woman. Yet she was a woman of the people, a worker: otherwise--let me reciprocate your bluntness--I should have scorned her. (TANNER: Very properly. And did she respond to your love?) Should I be here if she did? She objected to marry a Jew. (TANNER: On religious grounds?) No: she was a freethinker. She said that every Jew considers in his heart that English people are dirty in their habits.

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