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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.
— Max Beerbohm
I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay.
— Max Beerbohm
A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.
— Herbert Beerbohm Tree
It depends on each and every one of me.
— Herbert Beerbohm Tree
The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.
— Herbert Beerbohm Tree
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
Death cancels all engagements.
— Max Beerbohm
He was too much concerned with his own perfection ever to think of admiring any one else.
— Max Beerbohm
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
— Max Beerbohm
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
The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.
— Max Beerbohm
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
— Max Beerbohm
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
— Max Beerbohm
Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied ...
— Max Beerbohm
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
![Beerbohm Quotes By Max Beerbohm: History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.[1880]](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/beerbohm-quotes-by-max-beerbohm-207755.jpg "Beerbohm Quotes By Max Beerbohm: History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.[1880]")
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.[1880] — Max Beerbohm
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
— Max Beerbohm
People are either born hosts or born guests.
— Max Beerbohm
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
You will find my last words in the blue folder.
— Max Beerbohm
The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
— Max Beerbohm
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
— Max Beerbohm
The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.
— 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
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
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
— Max Beerbohm
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
![Beerbohm Quotes By Oscar Wilde: The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/beerbohm-quotes-by-oscar-wilde-1530231.jpg "Beerbohm Quotes By Oscar Wilde: The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift")
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
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
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
Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want.
— Herbert Beerbohm Tree
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
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
— 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
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
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
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
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
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
Cynicism is the humor of hatred.
— Herbert Beerbohm Tree