George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Marriage
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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
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Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.
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It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.
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My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
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Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
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Like fingerprints, all marriages are different.
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It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
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Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.
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What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
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A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.
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Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.
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All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.
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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
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What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!
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Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.
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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
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Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.
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