Back to Methuselah Quotes

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“One hardly knows which is the more appalling: the abjectness of the credulity or the flippancy of the scepticism.

— Shaw's Preface”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“It is not easy to make the best of both worlds when one of the worlds is preaching a Class War, and the other vigorously practising it.

— Shaw's Preface”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“And when anything no longer interests us we no longer know it.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“If I knew I had to die in twenty years it would not be worth my while to educate myself: I should not bother about anything but having a little pleasure while I lasted.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“Like all the other young people who have been let alone, she becomes a Socialist.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“You see, she hasnt time to find out what life really means. She has to die before she knows.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“She did not know then that imagination is the beginning of creation.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“When you and Adam talk, I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“You should try to have an existence of your own, instead of occupying yourself with my existence.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah