Max Beerbohm Quotes
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The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
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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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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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Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
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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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Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
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You will find my last words in the blue folder.
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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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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
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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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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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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.