You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilisation. Money is the most important thing in the world.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Who asked him to make a gentleman of me? I was happy. I was free. I touched pretty nigh everybody for money… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State). — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image