Quote 1201

You see things; and you say: "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say: "Why not?" George Bernard Shaw    9     1

Context / explanation

from his play "Back to Methuselah" (1921), part 1, act 1.


Source

1949: Selected Plays, Volume 2, Page 7, Publisher Dodd, Mead, Source


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