George Bernard Shaw on Love
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“Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.”
“* Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.”
“First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.”
“THE SERPENT: The voice in the garden is your own voice. ADAM: It is; and it is not. It is something greater than me: I am only a part of it. EVE: The Voice does not tell me not to kill you. Yet I do not want you to die before me. No voice is needed to make me feel that. ADAM [throwing his arm round her shoulder with an expression of anguish]: Oh no: that is plain without any voice. There is something that holds us together, something that has no word — THE SERPENT: Love. Love. Love. ADAM: That is too short a word for so long a thing.”