Max Beerbohm Quotes

He heard that whenever a woman was to blame for a disappointment, the best way to avoid a scene was to inculpate oneself.

Max Beerbohm

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• Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Friends
  • Need
  • Youth

• I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny.

  

  Orlando Jones
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Funny

• I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Work
  • Point
  • Critical

• We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Freedom
  • Realize
  • Kingdom

• I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Life
  • God
  • Beautiful

• I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Like
  • Fan
  • Big

• I think it's time, not for the Washington Redskins to change their name but for the Democratic Party to change its name. Because all you have to do is go online and look up the history of the Democratic Party. It's one of oppressing African-Americans. It's one of supporting slavery and the horrors that occurred in the United States.

  

  Louie Gohmert
  • Up
  • Time
  • History

• Ants are more like the parts of an animal than entities on their own. They are mobile cells, circulating through a dense connective tissue of other ants in a matrix of twigs. The circuits are so intimately interwoven that the anthill meets all the essential criteria of an organism.

  

  Lewis Thomas
  • Animal
  • Matrix

• I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Passion

• Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.

  

  Brian Boitano
  • People
  • Attention

• I'm actually a huge fan of changing every single 'anti-Trump' sentiment to 'pro-human rights' because they are synonymous.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Single
  • Trump

• I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Work
  • Live
  • Experience

• Friends would not say I'm a laid-back person by any means.

  

  Lauren Weisberger
  • Friends

• I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.

  

  Alexander Brome

• Yeah, I'd done a bunch of pilots. Some that had gone for a while. One that went for 13 episodes. But I had never been on a show that had lasted more than that.

  

  Donal Logue
  • Done

• Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense.

  

  Dennis Crowley
  • Future
  • Present

• The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy, unpredictable, unruly text, swimming upstream of spell-check and predictive auto-completion: Don't let them banalize you. Keep fighting.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Idiosyncratic
  • High-entropy

• We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

  

  George Eliot
  • Hurt
  • Pride
  • Disappointment

• What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether it be a copy of verses or a geometrical theorem, is to have done something utterly beyond the powers of the vast majority of men.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Men
  • Done
  • May

• I think we all realize the consumer has taken control, and they're not giving it back. So as every new technology comes forward, we have to figure out how to integrate it.

  

  Anne Sweeney
  • Giving
  • Control
  • Technology

• It is not possible to escape from the results of the irruption of faith into the structures of our knowledge.

  

  Jacques Maritain
  • Faith
  • Knowledge

• He heard that whenever a woman was to blame for a disappointment, the best way to avoid a scene was to inculpate oneself.

  

  Max Beerbohm
  • Disappointment