Quotes Max Beerbohm

A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lo...

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality....

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Thing...

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all,...

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about ...

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests....

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some af...

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eye...

I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made...

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has mad...

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter....

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality....

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has so...

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinki...

Most women are not as young as they are painted....

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacr...

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the ...

Nobody ever died of laughter....

Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most...

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great ...

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best....

People are either born hosts or born guests....

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terr...

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to...

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is populari...