Max Beerbohm quotes

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success. (Max Beerbohm)
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
Max Beerbohm
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
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
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Max Beerbohm
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
Max Beerbohm
Only the insane take themselves quite seriously.
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
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
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
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all. (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
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
Max Beerbohm
She was one of those people who said ''I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.''
Max Beerbohm
The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.
Max Beerbohm
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
Max Beerbohm
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a mans footprint.
Max Beerbohm
The past is a work of art, full of irrelevancies and loose ends.
Max Beerbohm
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 for in legend as having died of laughter.
Max Beerbohm
Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
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When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul. (Max Beerbohm)
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
Max Beerbohm
People are either born hosts or born guests.
Max Beerbohm
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
Max Beerbohm
Nobody ever died of laughter.
Max Beerbohm