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Quotes of Max Beerbohm
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A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her. (unknown)
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality. (unknown)
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth. (unknown)
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. (people)
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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter. (senses)
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests. (unknown)
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. (men)
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. (dictionaries)
I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. (unknown)
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter. (unknown)
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. (nature)
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. (men)
Most women are not as young as they are painted. (women)
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. (work)
No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'. (unknown)
Nobody ever died of laughter. (unknown)
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful. (women)
One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests. (unknown)
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. (unknown)
People are either born hosts or born guests. (people)
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. (people)
Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls. (people)
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. (unknown)
There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success. (failure)
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. (unknown)
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Beerbohm, Max
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