Mitchener Monologue from Press Cuttings

From Press Cuttings by Bernard Shaw

male · defiant · 1:17 min

Your arguments are so devilishly ingenious that I feel convinced you got them out of some confounded book. Mine--such as they are--are my own. I imagine its something like this. There is an old saying that if you take care of the pence, the pounds will take care of themselves. Well, perhaps if we take care of the dowdies and the butchers and the bakers, the beauties and the bigwigs will take care of themselves. (Rising and facing her determinedly.) Anyhow, I dont want to have things arranged for me by Wagner. Im not Wagner. How does he know where the shoe pinches me? How do you know where the shoe pinches your washerwoman?--you and your high F in alt. How are you to know when you havent made her comfortable unless she has a vote? Do you want her to come and break your windows? (LADY CORINTHIA: Am I to understand that General Mitchener is a democrat and a suffraget?) Yes: you have converted me--you and Mrs. Banger.

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