Men have everyadvantage of us in telling their story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands.

-Austen,Jane
  Persuasion, ch.23.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

-Butler, Samuel
  The Way of  All Flesh, ch.34.

The advantage of time and place in practical actions is half the victory; which being lost is irrecoverable.

-Drake, Sir Francis
  Letter to Elizabeth I,13  Apr.

But the essential advantage for a poet†is to be able to see beneath both beauty and ugliness; to see the boredom, and the horror, and the glory.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism.

Many girls have not the advantage I have and I [am] very very glad that satan has not geven me boils and many other Misfortunes.

-Fleming, Marjory
  'Journal 2' in F Sidgwick (ed)  The Complete Marjory Fleming (1934).

Many times†I had heard the military take positions which, if wrong, had the advantage that no one would be around at the end to know.

-Kennedy, Robert F(rancis)
Recalling discussions on Soviet placement of nuclear missiles in Cuba. Thirteen Days (published1969).

Each of us can, by ployorgambit, most naturally gain the advantage.

-Potter, Stephen
  Lifemanship.

It is easyöterribly easyöto shake a man's faith in himself.Totakeadvantage ofthattobreak a man'sspirit is devil's work.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Morell to Marchbanks. Candida, act1.

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

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Waiter.You Never CanTell, act 2.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. It combines the best features of that primitive form of cricket known asTip-and-Run with those of lawn tennis, Puss-in-the-corner and Handel's Messiah.

-Shaw, George Bernard
Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to makethantobuy.Thetaylordoesnot attempttomakehis ownshoe†All ofthemfind itfor their interestto employ their whole industry in a way in which they have some advantage over their neighbours and to purchase with a part of its produce†whatever else they have occasion for† What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom† Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation of all foreign wines, merely to encourage the making of claret and burgundy in Scotland?

-Smith, Adam
  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theWealth of Nations, bk.4, ch.2.

Writers are much more esteemed in Russia, they playa much larger part in society thantheydo in theWest.The advantage of not being free is that people listen to you.

-Snow, C(harles) P(ercy), 1st Baron
Interview on Radio Moscow.