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Max Beerbohm Quotes

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That old bell, presage of a train, had just sounded through oxford station; and the undergraduates who were waiting there, gay figures in tweed or flannels, moved to the margin of the platform and gazed idly up the line  (Max Beerbohm Quotes) She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like  (Max Beerbohm Quotes) How many charming talents have been spoiled by the instilled desire to do 'important' work! Some people are born to lift heavy weights. Some are born to juggle with golden balls  (Max Beerbohm Quotes) 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 Quotes) To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving  (Max Beerbohm Quotes) We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans  (Max Beerbohm Quotes) 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 Quotes) Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth  (Max Beerbohm Quotes) 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 Quotes) I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul  (Max Beerbohm Quotes) To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine  (Max Beerbohm Quotes) 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 Quotes) To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people  (Max Beerbohm Quotes) It is so much easier to covet what one hasn't than to revel in what one has. Also, it is so much easier to be enthusiastic about what exists than about what doesn't  (Max Beerbohm Quotes) The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it  (Max Beerbohm Quotes) It is a part of English hypocrisy - or English reserve - that, whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making light of any great difficulties or griefs that may beset us  (Max Beerbohm Quotes) The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them  (Max Beerbohm Quotes) Strange, when you come to think of it, that of all the countless folk who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter  (Max Beerbohm Quotes) I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed  (Max Beerbohm Quotes) Just as pluck comes of breeding, so is endurance especially an attribute of the artist. Because he can stand outside himself, and (if there be nothing ignoble in them) take pleasure in his own sufferings, the artist has a huge advantage over you and me  (Max Beerbohm Quotes) After all, as a pretty girl once said to me, women are a sex by themselves, so to speak  (Max Beerbohm Quotes) She was one of those people who say I don't know anything about music really, but I know what I like  (Max Beerbohm Quotes) You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men  (Max Beerbohm Quotes) He heard that whenever a woman was to blame for a disappointment, the best way to avoid a scene was to inculpate oneself  (Max Beerbohm Quotes) The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end  (Max Beerbohm Quotes) He was too much concerned with his own perfection ever to think of admiring any one else  (Max Beerbohm Quotes) The most perfect caricature is that which, on a small surface, with the simplest means, most accurately exaggerates, to the highest point, the peculiarities of a human being, at his most characteristic moment in the most beautiful manner  (Max Beerbohm Quotes) For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like  (Max Beerbohm Quotes) True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion  (Max Beerbohm Quotes) Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter  (Max Beerbohm Quotes)
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