Author » Shaw, George Bernard
259 posts
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.