. It ain't the lecturing I mind. I'll lecture them blue in the face, I will, and not turn a hair. It's making a gentleman of me that I object to. Who asked him to make a gentleman of me? I was happy. I was free. I touched pretty nigh everybody for money when I wanted it, same as I touched you, Henry Higgins. Now I am worrited; tied neck and heels; and everybody touches me for money. It's a fine thing for you, says my solicitor. Is it? says I. You mean it's a good thing for you, I says. When I was a poor man and had a solicitor once when they found a pram in the dust cart, he got me off, and got shut of me and got me shut of him as quick as he could. Same with the doctors: used to shove me out of the hospital before I could hardly stand on my legs, and nothing to pay. Now they finds out that I'm not a healthy man and can't live unless they looks after me twice a day. In the house I'm not let do a hand's turn for myself: somebody else must do it and touch me for it. A year ago I hadn't a relative in the world except two or three that wouldn't speak to me. Now I've fifty, and not a decent week's wages among the lot of them. I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle class morality. You talk of losing Eliza. Don't you be anxious: I bet she's on my doorstep by this: she that could support herself easy by selling flowers if I wasn't respectable. And the next one to touch me will be you, Henry Higgins. I'll have to learn to speak middle class language from you, instead of speaking proper English. That's where you'll come in; and I daresay that's what you done it for.
In this monologue Doolittle expresses that being wealthy was not all he dreamed of. He reflects on his life prior to his newfound wealth and acknowledges that he was "happy" and "free" , yet now he is "worried" being "solicited". The change in connotation behind these words reflects the grave difference Doolittle feels has occurred in his life. He go on to say that now everyone waits on him hand and foot, even a change in the hospital which Shaw includes to highlight the issues in public health care systems. While this whole play is about the men trying to prepare Eliza for the wealthy society, the larger argument of it is that high society is not all one thinks it may be. People use people for their wealth and one is unable to tell if someone is actually being genuine or just using them; it also comes with a multitude of responsibilities.