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Quotes from Getting Married — George Bernard Shaw

1856–1950 Ireland

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14 quotes

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

Getting Married (1908)

Religion is a great force — the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

Getting Married (1908)

Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.

Getting Married (1908)

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

Getting Married (1908)

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

Getting Married (1908)

You are all missionaries and proselytizers trying to uproot the native religion from your neighbor's flowerbeds and plant your own in its place.

Getting Married (1908)

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

Getting Married (1908)

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

Getting Married (1908)

Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.

Getting Married (1908)

Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.

Getting Married (1908)

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

Getting Married (1908)

Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

Getting Married (1908)

All progress means war with Society.

Getting Married (1908)

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.

Getting Married (1908)

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