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"England and America are two countries separated by the same language."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us."
"You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself."