Max Beerbohm Quotes
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Strange, when you come to think of it, that of all the countless folk who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.
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I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
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You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.
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He was too much concerned with his own perfection ever to think of admiring any one else.
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To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
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She was a young person whose reveries never were in retrospect. For her past was no treasury of distinct memories, all hoarded and classified, some brighter than others and more highly valued. All memories were for her but as the motes in one fused radiance that followed her and made more luminous the pathway of her future.
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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
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Lift latch, step in, be welcome, Sir,Albeit to see you I’m unglad.
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
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Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
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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.
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A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.
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Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
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Nobody ever died of laughter.
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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
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The most perfect caricature is that which, on a small surface, with the simplest means, most accurately exaggerates, to the highest point, the peculiarities of a human being, at his most characteristic moment in the most beautiful manner.
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Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
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People are either born hosts or born guests.
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Death cancels all engagements.
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You will find my last words in the blue folder.
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To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.
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Oxford walls have a way of belittling us; and the Duke was loath to regard his doom as trivial. Aye, by all minerals we are mocked. Vegetables, yearly deciduous, are far more sympathetic.
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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.