Marriage Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

— George Bernard Shaw

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

— George Bernard Shaw

I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit , like all husbands .

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

— George Bernard Shaw

Like fingerprints, all marriages are different.

— George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

— George Bernard Shaw

The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case…

— George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking…

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle…

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

— George Bernard Shaw

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as possible

— George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender,…

— George Bernard Shaw

What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his…

— George Bernard Shaw

What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of…

— George Bernard Shaw

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Weak people want to marry strong people who do not frighten them too much; and this often leads them to make the…

— George Bernard Shaw

Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life…

— George Bernard Shaw

When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged…

— George Bernard Shaw

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that…

— George Bernard Shaw

“The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Bridegroom! What a word! It makes a man realize his position, somehow.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

— George Bernard Shaw

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

— George Bernard Shaw

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

— George Bernard Shaw

A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep…

— George Bernard Shaw

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than…

— George Bernard Shaw

It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all…

— George Bernard Shaw