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George Bernard Shaw on Marriage

1856–1950 Ireland

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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)

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.

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.