Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing. — 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
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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