“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?”

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”

“There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”

“There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”

“Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?”

“I say, if you hate cruelty, remember that nothing is so cruel in its consequences as the toleration of heresy!”

“My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.”