"My friend, when a man has anything..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
More by George Bernard Shaw
“If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.”
“But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.”
“You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.”
More on Communication
“The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.”
“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
“When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. ... there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.”
More on Human Nature
“Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.”
“The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.”
“I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and hypocrisies and cruelties that make up civilization, and cause me to put in the rest of the day pleading for the damnation of the human race. I cannot seem to get my prayers answered, yet I do not despair.”