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You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"

George Bernard Shaw

Dream

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

George Bernard Shaw

Old

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

George Bernard Shaw

Virtue

Trade

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

George Bernard Shaw

Sex

Advice

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

George Bernard Shaw

Fire

Painting

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

George Bernard Shaw

Work

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

George Bernard Shaw

Duty

Man

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

George Bernard Shaw

Man

Murder

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

George Bernard Shaw

Money

Man

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

George Bernard Shaw

Being

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

George Bernard Shaw

Art

Government