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Max Beerbohm
English
Actor
About the author
A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#Eyes
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#Fantasy
#Reality
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#Giving
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#Woman
#Hatred
One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#Mankind
#Guests
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#Mediocrity
People are either born hosts or born guests.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#People
#Guests
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#People
#Dreams
Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#People
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#Will
#Men
#Woman
#Dogs
#Sympathy
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#Art
#Soul
#Hospitality
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#Quality
To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#Mankind
#Lady
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#Pen
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#Instinct
#Nature
There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#Success
#Failure
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#Conscience
#Cowards
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#Balance
#Modesty
#Conceit
#Popularity
Nobody ever died of laughter.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#Laughter
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#American
#Dreams
#Americans
#Talking
#Listening
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#People
#Man
#Effect
You will find my last words in the blue folder.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#Words
#Will
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#Laughter
No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#Night
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#Eyes
#Soul
#Windows
#Quotations
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,
English
Actor
#Man
#Spiritual
#Genius
#Affliction
#Gods
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#Virtue
#Humility
#Guests
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#Nonsense
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,
English
Actor
#Personality
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#Worth
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,
English
Actor
#Law
#Man
#Nature
#Obvious
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,
English
Actor
#Character
#People
#Thinking
#Men
#Instinct
#Deep
#Judges
#Quick
#Genius
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#Women
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Max Beerbohm,
English
Actor
#Work
#Self
#Doubt