Rich Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

— George Bernard Shaw

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

— George Bernard Shaw

What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

— George Bernard Shaw

Very few people can afford to be poor.

— George Bernard Shaw

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

— George Bernard Shaw

Money is a most important thing in the world.

— George Bernard Shaw

What's the use of money if you have to earn it.

— George Bernard Shaw

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

— George Bernard Shaw

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

— George Bernard Shaw

People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

— George Bernard Shaw

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

— George Bernard Shaw

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

— George Bernard Shaw

Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned…

— George Bernard Shaw

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

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this…

— George Bernard Shaw

As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer…

— George Bernard Shaw

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

“why is it that the people who know how to enjoy themselves never have any money and the people who have money…

— George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to…

— George Bernard Shaw

The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law…

— George Bernard Shaw

Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood…

— George Bernard Shaw

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world.…

— George Bernard Shaw

There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and…

— George Bernard Shaw

Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find…

— George Bernard Shaw

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much…

— George Bernard Shaw

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

— George Bernard Shaw

I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

— George Bernard Shaw

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with…

— George Bernard Shaw

“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

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