"You sometimes have to answer a woman..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.
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“Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.”
“Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.”
“No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.”
More on Communication
“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”
“Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.”
“When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb's bleat.”