George Bernard Shaw Quotes

My people are poor and I am one of them.

Money can't buy poverty.

I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If you're poor, you're really poor.

You're just too poor to get rich.

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

When I was a child, I didn't fly - we couldn't afford to fly. Flying was for rich people.

Where I came from, people couldn't afford to go to the theatre.

My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

A poor man is a man who has not got much money. This may seem a simple and unnecessary description, but in the face of a great mass of modern fact and fiction, it seems very necessary indeed; most of our realists and sociologists talk about a poor man as if he were an octopus or an alligator.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

What we're saying is that if you are poor, you can die.

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

I come from the lower middle class, originally. We didn't have anything.

I was the kind of poor where I knew right away I had less than everyone around me. Our environment, our physical space reflected our income.

In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.