Beerbohm Quotes & Sayings
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Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you. —
Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind. —
Herbert Beerbohm Tree

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

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all. —
Max Beerbohm
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The gods bestowed on Max [
Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age. —
Oscar Wilde

A man never knows what a fool he is until he hears himself imitated by one. —
Herbert Beerbohm Tree

God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down. —
Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short. —
Max Beerbohm

When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat. —
Herbert Beerbohm Tree

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty. —
Herbert Beerbohm Tree

She kissed her way into society. I don't like her. But don't misunderstand me: my dislike is purely platonic. —
Herbert Beerbohm Tree

A charming fellow, and so clever: he models himself on me. —
Herbert Beerbohm Tree

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

I may be old fashioned, but I am right. —
Max Beerbohm

Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max
Beerbohm. —
Cynthia Ozick

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

Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise. —
Max Beerbohm

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul. —
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

Every kind of writing is hypocritical. —
Max Beerbohm

Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests. —
Max Beerbohm

Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want. —
Herbert Beerbohm Tree

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

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

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter. —
Max Beerbohm

Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision. —
Max Beerbohm

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

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

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

I'll have that one, please. —
Herbert Beerbohm Tree

"After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak." —
Max Beerbohm

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

Tell me, when you are alone with him [ Max
Beerbohm ] Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask? —
Oscar Wilde

Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet —
Max Beerbohm

Every man is a potential genius until he does something. —
Herbert Beerbohm Tree

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

Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max
Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art. —
V.S. Pritchett

People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk. —
Max Beerbohm

Nobody ever died of laughter. —
Max Beerbohm

True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion. —
Max Beerbohm

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

The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions. —
Max Beerbohm

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

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

Only the insane take themselves seriously. —
Max Beerbohm

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

Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry. —
Max Beerbohm

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

History,' it has been said, 'does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another. —
Max Beerbohm

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends ... —
Max Beerbohm

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

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 was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young. —
Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs. —
Max Beerbohm

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

He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him. —
Herbert Beerbohm Tree

My poor fellow, why not carry a watch? —
Herbert Beerbohm Tree

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

Pessimism does win us great happy moments. —
Max Beerbohm

I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns. —
Max Beerbohm

A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life. —
Herbert Beerbohm Tree

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

Cynicism is the humor of hatred. —
Herbert Beerbohm Tree