All GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Quotes about “Marriage”

“Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.”
“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?”
“Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.”
“What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.”
“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.”
“Like fingerprints, all marriages are different.”
“Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.”
“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!”
“All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.”
“A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.”
“Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.”

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