Quotations and phrases - Max Beerbohm

A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.
-- Max Beerbohm

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
-- Max Beerbohm

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
-- Max Beerbohm

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.
-- Max Beerbohm

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
-- Max Beerbohm

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
-- Max Beerbohm

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
-- Max Beerbohm

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
-- Max Beerbohm

I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
-- Max Beerbohm

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
-- Max Beerbohm

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
-- Max Beerbohm

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
-- Max Beerbohm

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
-- Max Beerbohm

Most women are not as young as they are painted.
-- Max Beerbohm

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
-- Max Beerbohm

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
-- Max Beerbohm

Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm

Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
-- Max Beerbohm

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
-- Max Beerbohm

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
-- Max Beerbohm

People are either born hosts or born guests.
-- Max Beerbohm

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
-- Max Beerbohm

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
-- Max Beerbohm

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
-- Max Beerbohm

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
-- Max Beerbohm

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
-- Max Beerbohm

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
-- Max Beerbohm

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
-- Max Beerbohm

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
-- Max Beerbohm

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.
-- Max Beerbohm

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
-- Max Beerbohm

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.
-- Max Beerbohm

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
-- Max Beerbohm

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
-- Max Beerbohm

You will find my last words in the blue folder.
-- Max Beerbohm

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.
-- Max Beerbohm

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