George Bernard Shaw on Money
Browse 6 quotations attributed to George Bernard Shaw, catalogued under money, with dates where available.
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Attributed to George Bernard Shaw, entry #7114: "The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier: the manners and habits of a duke would cost a city clerk his situation."
Attributed to George Bernard Shaw, entry #151251: "The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."
6 Quotes by George Bernard Shaw on Money
"The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier: the manners and habits of a duke would cost a city clerk his situation."
"The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."
"We should refuse to tolerate poverty as a social institution not because the poor are the salt of the earth, but because 'the poor in a lump are bad'."
"The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty."
"Lack of money is the root of all evil."
"Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections."