Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

Lack of money is the root of of all evil.

The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

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

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do