Max Beerbohm Quotes

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

Max Beerbohm

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• Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Time
  • Health
  • Animal

• Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • People
  • Problem
  • Ego

• The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Time
  • World
  • Political

• For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Time
  • Important
  • Money

• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Power
  • More
  • Dangerous

• Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Great
  • Me
  • Mean

• Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Home
  • Language

• Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Eyes
  • Learn
  • Ears

• Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nothing
  • Hollywood
  • Cinema

• It's ludicrous to think people work for you: 'a film by...' doesn't exist. Directed by, maybe, but it's a film from a collective, a group of people whom you consult and seek your counsel and advice and vice versa, too.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Work
  • Advice

• I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • People
  • Think
  • Secrets

• It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.

  

  J. Milton Hayes
  • House
  • Will
  • Fix

• The Supreme Court, once in existence, cannot be abolished, because its foundation is not in an act of the legislative department of the Government, but in the Constitution of the United States.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Government
  • Constitution

• I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Scars

• It is evident that the relation to God with which the Bible is concerned does not have its source in the purple depths of the subconscious, and cannot be identical with what the deep-sea psychical research of our day describes in the narrower or broader sense as libido fulfilment.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Deep
  • Sea

• My nature is that I have to excite myself with a big challenge.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Nature
  • Challenge

• …English translation of the Koran. I wonder how, with such a repetitive farrago of platitudes, expressing so self-evident a theology and an ethic so puerile, Islam can have spread as it has.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Wonder

• I had to shake the spot cause the game got crowded I'm devoted and quote it, I'm rowdy and bout it A No Limit Soldier, and happy to shout it.

  

  Snoop Dogg
  • Happy
  • Game
  • Soldier

• I ended up doing these other diverse things, but King Tuff is the thing I always wanted to come back to - just good, straightforward rock n' roll. That music is the most me, you know?

  

  King Tuff
  • Up
  • Good
  • Music

• Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore I love that nose. Her ears hear music I might sing half the night through; therefore I love her ears. Her eyes delight in seasons of the land; and so I love those eyes. Her tongue knows quince, peach, chokeberry, mint and lime; I love to hear it speaking. Because her flesh knows heat, cold, affliction, I know fire, snow, and pain. Shared and once again shared experience.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Night
  • Wife

• We know how we were born, but know not how we will die.

  

  Giovanni Morassutti
  • Life
  • Know
  • Die

• All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Men
  • Heaven
  • Unity

• Any time you do something - a protest - you know there's going to be backlash.

  

  Eric Reid
  • Protest
  • Backlash

• Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.

  

  Max Beerbohm