George Bernard Shaw Marriage Quotations

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.

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

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

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

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

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?

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.

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!

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.

A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.

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.

Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

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

Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.

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.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.