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Max Beerbohm quotes: To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
Max Beerbohm quotes: For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like. For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.
Max Beerbohm quotes: I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay. I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay.
Max Beerbohm quotes: No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'. No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
Max Beerbohm quotes: The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art. The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.
Max Beerbohm quotes: 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. 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 quotes: A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it. A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.
Max Beerbohm quotes: Death cancels all engagements. Death cancels all engagements.
Max Beerbohm quotes: He was too much concerned with his own perfection ever to think of admiring any one else. He was too much concerned with his own perfection ever to think of admiring any one else.
Max Beerbohm quotes: To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Max Beerbohm quotes: What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century
Max Beerbohm quotes: The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them. The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.
Max Beerbohm quotes: People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
Max Beerbohm quotes: Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth. Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
Max Beerbohm quotes: Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied ... Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied ...
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. 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: 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. 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.
Max Beerbohm quotes: History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.[1880] History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
[1880]
Max Beerbohm quotes: Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint. Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
Max Beerbohm quotes: People are either born hosts or born guests. People are either born hosts or born guests.
Max Beerbohm quotes: Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie. Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.
Max Beerbohm quotes: You will find my last words in the blue folder. You will find my last words in the blue folder.
Max Beerbohm quotes: But to die of laughterthis, too, seems to me a great euthanasia. But to die of laughter
this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.
Max Beerbohm quotes: The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it. The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
Max Beerbohm quotes: It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion. It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
Max Beerbohm quotes: A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral. A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
Max Beerbohm quotes: There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success. There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
Max Beerbohm quotes: The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play. The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.
Max Beerbohm quotes: The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
Max Beerbohm quotes: 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. 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.
Max Beerbohm quotes: Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests. Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
Max Beerbohm quotes: Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter. Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
Max Beerbohm quotes: Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise. Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.
Max Beerbohm quotes: I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
Max Beerbohm quotes: The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all. The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
Max Beerbohm quotes: When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul. When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
Max Beerbohm quotes: To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
Max Beerbohm quotes: I may be old fashioned, but I am right. I may be old fashioned, but I am right.
Max Beerbohm quotes: Every kind of writing is hypocritical. Every kind of writing is hypocritical.
Max Beerbohm quotes: Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused. Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.
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. 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: Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls. Some people are born to lift heavy weights,
some are born to juggle golden balls.
Max Beerbohm quotes: Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests. Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
Max Beerbohm quotes: Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short. Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.
Max Beerbohm quotes: Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful. Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
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. 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: Most women are not as young as they are painted. Most women are not as young as they are painted.
Max Beerbohm quotes: It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
Max Beerbohm quotes: Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter. Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
Max Beerbohm quotes: The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions. The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
Max Beerbohm quotes: All fantasy should have a solid base in reality. All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
Max Beerbohm quotes: True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion. True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.
Max Beerbohm quotes: Nobody ever died of laughter. Nobody ever died of laughter.
Max Beerbohm quotes: People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk. People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.
Max Beerbohm quotes: The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
Max Beerbohm quotes: Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision. Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.
Max Beerbohm quotes: Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet
Max Beerbohm quotes: 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. 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 quotes: A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her. A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.
Max Beerbohm quotes: "After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak." "After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."
Max Beerbohm quotes: I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Max Beerbohm quotes: No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Max Beerbohm quotes: A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought. A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought.
Max Beerbohm quotes: To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
Max Beerbohm quotes: I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns. I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.
Max Beerbohm quotes: Pessimism does win us great happy moments. Pessimism does win us great happy moments.
Max Beerbohm quotes: We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans. We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
Max Beerbohm quotes: Only the insane take themselves seriously. Only the insane take themselves seriously.
Max Beerbohm quotes: Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs. Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
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. 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: The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages. The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.
Max Beerbohm quotes: The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends ... The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends ...
Max Beerbohm quotes: History,' it has been said, 'does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another. History,' it has been said, 'does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.
Max Beerbohm quotes: Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me. Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me.
Max Beerbohm quotes: Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry. Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.

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