Max Beerbohm quotes - page 3

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)
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth. View quote
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Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests. View quote
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To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. View quote
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One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests. View quote
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I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. View quote
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A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her. View quote
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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. View quote
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. View quote
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To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. View quote
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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. (Max Beerbohm)
You will find my last words in the blue folder. View quote
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Pessimism does win us some great moments. View quote
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I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay. View quote
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Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short. View quote
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The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own. View quote
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Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge. View quote
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Have you ever noticed there is never any third act to a nightmare They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. View quote
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After all,' as a pretty girl once said to me, 'women are a sex by themselves, so to speak. View quote
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Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me. View quote
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Everyone, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by check more lightheartedly than he pays little in cash. (Max Beerbohm)
Every kind of writing is hypocritical. View quote
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Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied. View quote
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It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks but that is another matter. View quote
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By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry. View quote
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