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Max Beerbohm [1872-1956] English

Rank: 103
Actor, Essayist

Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist. He first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humorist.

Dreams, Art, Best, Failure, Nature, Sympathy, Teacher, Work

Quote	Tags	Rank
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.	Best	101
People are either born hosts or born guests.		102
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.		103
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.	Nature	104
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.	Art	105
Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.		106
Most women are not as young as they are painted.		107
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.		108
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.		109
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.		110
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.		111
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.	Work	112
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.		113
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.		114
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.		115
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.	Dreams	116
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.		117
One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.		118
Nobody ever died of laughter.		119
There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.	Failure	120
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.		121
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.		122
A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.		123
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.	Dreams	124
To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.		125
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.		126
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.	Teacher	201
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.		202
You will find my last words in the blue folder.		203
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.		204
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.		205
No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.		206
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.		207
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.		208
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.	Sympathy	209

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