Collins Monologue from Getting Married

From Getting Married by Bernard Shaw

male · philosophical · 59 sec

But even then, maam, why should we be held together when thats all over--when the girls are married and the boys out in the world and in business for themselves? When thats done with, the real work of the marriage is done with. If the two like to stay together, let them stay together. But if not, let them part, as old people in the workhouses do. Theyve had enough of one another. Theyve found one another out. Why should they be tied together to sit there grudging and hating and spiting one another like so many do? Put it twenty years from the birth of the youngest child. (SOAMES: How if there be no children?) Let em take one another on liking.

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