“The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.”
George Bernard Shaw You Never Can Tell
You Never Can Tell, Act II
1890s
7-Jan-2006, DCFC website
The quotes come thick and fast.
“The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.”
George Bernard Shaw You Never Can Tell
You Never Can Tell, Act II
1890s
Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826–1900) German socialist politician
No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899)
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Directives on the Cultural Revolution (1966-1972)
“The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Source: 1910s, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (1919), Ch. 7: Rational, Real and Complex Numbers
Amitabh Bachchan (1942) Indian actor
To Farhan Akhtar, after a private screening of the film, Lakshya, reported in Cine Blitz (2004).
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 63
Ilana Mercer South African writer
"How The Left Stole Liberalism & Sold Out The West, http://www.quarterly-review.org/how-the-left-stole-liberalism-and-betrayed-the-west/" Quarterly Review, August 19, 2018." <br class="br">2010s, 2018
Richard Stallman (1953) American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
1990s, Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism (1998)