My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
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Zum Autor"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say and then to say it with the utmost levity."
"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."
"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired."
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
"Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men."