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George Bernard Shaw on Anniversary

1856–1950 Ireland

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15 quotes

Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

Getting Married (1908)

If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.

Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

Man and Superman (1903)

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

Man and Superman (1903)

* Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

The fickleness of the woman I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

The Philanderer (1893)

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.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Getting Married (1908)

What God hath joined together no man shall ever put asunder: God will take care of that.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

Perhaps woman's art is of woman's life a thing apart, 'tis man's whole existence; just as love is said to be the reverse — though it isn't.

Love Among the Artists (1900)

Composers are not human; They can live on diminished sevenths, and be contented with a pianoforte for a wife, and a string quartet for a family.

Love Among the Artists (1900)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Bernard Shaw (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.