“The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.”

— George Bernard Shaw, You Never Can Tell (1898), Act II

About George Bernard Shaw

1856 – 1950

Irish playwright and critic, Nobel laureate in Literature (1925).

“If you teach a man anything he will never learn it.”

“Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.”

“You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul.”

“Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.”

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.”

“Each of us lives only now, this brief instant.”

“Life is our dictionary.”

“Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.”

“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”