Max Beerbohm Quotes
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When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
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Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
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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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Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
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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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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
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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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People are either born hosts or born guests.
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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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Lift latch, step in, be welcome, Sir,Albeit to see you I’m unglad.
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You will find my last words in the blue folder.
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Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
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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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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
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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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A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.
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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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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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Death cancels all engagements.
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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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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.