My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

George Bernard Shaw
Some Similar Quotes
  1. The menu is not the meal. - Alan W. Watts

  2. Words are the clothes thoughts wear. - Samuel Beckett

  3. When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world. - George Steiner

  4. Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

  5. Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable. - Unknown

More Quotes By George Bernard Shaw
  1. There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

  2. What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

  3. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

  4. A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

  5. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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