Gentleman Quote by George Bernard Shaw Download Open image “I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.” — George Bernard Shaw ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gentleman Live by Live Robbing Money Poor Rich Rich Gentleman Robbing Robbing Poor Robbing Rich
A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“poverty is not a vice, that’s a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkenness is not a virtue, and that that’s even truer.… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Every time thief steals, he steals from his own peace, from his own honour! No man is as poor as a rich thief! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Then you will see the rise of the men of the double standard—the men who live by force, yet count on those who live… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. -Proverbs 22:7 — Bible Copy Share Image
A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts. — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
A man is called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man is a thief or philanthropist. Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. — Edmund Burke 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
“Like this, Rook.” Ford’s soft words vibrate into me. “I like you. I’d like to show you how much, actually. I’m being a gentleman… — J.A. Huss Copy Share Image
“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Call me old-fashioned, but whenever I see those wire-fortified ribbons, I have the secret stab of nostalgia for old-timey ribbon, the kind whose ends… — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Some Iranian doctors from Europe and America go to Iran and operate for free or teach medical students there. The other day, I met… — Farah Diba Copy Share Image
What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image