“The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.”
You Never Can Tell, Act II
1890s
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George Bernard Shaw 413
Irish playwright 1856–1950Related quotes

“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
Variant: There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

“We used the home advantage to our advantage.”
7-Jan-2006, DCFC website
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“The night is a refuge far from the world where to give life to your ideas.”
Original: (it) La notte è il rifugio lontano dal mondo dove dar vita alle tue idee.
Source: prevale.net

“I started life with two great advantages: no money, and good parents.”
On a 1971 TV interview, when asked if she understands ordinary people's problems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tanJYrIh7VU&feature=youtu.be&t=47s
Education Secretary

“Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.”

Source: Impeachment Inquiry: Ms. Jennifer Williams and Lietenant Colonel Alexander Vindman (Tuesday, November 19, 2019), p. 20.

Source: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861), Chapter 20 (at page 174)

Radio talk, 22 May, 1942
Wilderness Years (1941-1949)