Max Beerbohm quotes Born: 08/24/1872 Died: 05/20/1956 Country: united_kingdom

• A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her. (Max Beerbohm) [eyes]
• All fantasy should have a solid base in reality. (Max Beerbohm) [fantasy/reality]
• Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth. (Max Beerbohm)
• As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal. (Max Beerbohm) [generation/personality]
• Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter. (Max Beerbohm) [matter]
• Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests. (Max Beerbohm) [humility/virtue/virtue/guests]
• I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. (Max Beerbohm) [genius]
• I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. (Max Beerbohm) [quotations/eyes/windows]
• I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. (Max Beerbohm)
• Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter. (Max Beerbohm) [laughter]
• It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait. (Max Beerbohm) [right/nature/portrait]
• 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. (Max Beerbohm) [men/genius/character/thinking]
• Most women are not as young as they are painted. (Max Beerbohm) [women]
• No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. (Max Beerbohm) [concentration]
• No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'. (Max Beerbohm) [night]
• Nobody ever died of laughter. (Max Beerbohm) [laughter]
• Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful. (Max Beerbohm) [hatred]
• One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests. (Max Beerbohm) [mankind/guests]
• Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. (Max Beerbohm)
• People are either born hosts or born guests. (Max Beerbohm) [people/guests]
• People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. (Max Beerbohm) [people/dreams]
• Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls. (Max Beerbohm) [people/heavy]
• The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. (Max Beerbohm) [balance]
• There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success. (Max Beerbohm) [more]
• To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. (Max Beerbohm) [destroy/instinct/nature]
• To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. (Max Beerbohm) [give/account]
• To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. (Max Beerbohm) [give]

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