My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say and then to say it with the utmost levity.
Weitere Zitate von George Bernard Shaw
Zum Autor"When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one and do without change."
"My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world."
"Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car."
"In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win."
"Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality."
"It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date."