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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950The Philanderer (1893), Act II
- Women
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Martin Avery Sherry Baby: Young Love/First Love, Lulu.com, p. 5.
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950
- Marriage
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950
The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Man and Superman (1903), p. 121
- Marriage
- Morality
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Man and Superman (1903), p. 23
- Food
If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #179
Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Getting Married (1908), Preface
My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy; and, when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change, without torture such as you cannot even imagine.
Mary Shelley1797–1851Frankenstein (1818), Chapter XXIVIn context
Love’s very pain is sweet,
But its reward is in the world divine
Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822Epipsychidion (1821), l. 595
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not I with thine?
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822Love’s Philosophy (1819)In context
The sunlight clasps the earth
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What is all this sweet work worth
If thou kiss not me?
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822Love’s Philosophy (1819)In context
Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory⁠—
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822Music, When Soft Voices Die (1821)In context
- Music
“You can’t buy love with money.” Only a poor person says that.
Gene Simmonsborn 1949What I’ve Learned (July 2002)
- Money
If I had as many love affairs as you’ve given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School.
Frank Sinatra1915–1998Pop Chronicles: Show 22—Smack Dab in the Middle on Route 66: A skinny dip in the easy listening mainstream. (Part 1), 1965.
- Comedy