Max BeerbohmIt is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. ✨ Max Beerbohm (2015). The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm, p.72, New York Review of B… ▶352Reading
Max BeerbohmSometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet352HumanityTime
Max BeerbohmThere is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go. ✨ Sir Max Beerbo… ▶331Humanity
Max BeerbohmAs a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal. ✨ Sir Max Beerbohm (1954). Around Theatres364Death
Max BeerbohmA hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her. ✨ Max Beerbohm (2010). Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story, p.7, The Floating Press365Love
Max BeerbohmIncongruity is the mainspring of laughter.377Humor
Max BeerbohmGreat men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short. ✨ Max Beerbohm (2006). And Even Now, p.93, 1st World Publishing322Life
Max BeerbohmThe Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all. ✨ Max Beerbohm (2015). The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm, p.142, New York Review of Boo… ▶367Reading
Max BeerbohmNo Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'. ✨ And Even Now (1920) Hosts and Guests345Reflection
Max BeerbohmTo destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature. ✨ Yet Again.312Truth
Max BeerbohmPeople who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. ✨ Sir Max Beerbohm (1968). Around Theatres324Humanity
Max BeerbohmNobody ever died of laughter.379DeathHumor
Max BeerbohmImprovisation is the essence of good talk. Heaven defend us from the talker who doles out things prepared for us; but let heaven not less defend us from the beautiful spontaneous … ▶358Time
Max BeerbohmSome people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls. ✨ The Comparable Max by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. August 3, 2015.336Humanity
Max BeerbohmTo 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 (2015). The Prince of Minor Writers… ▶292HumanityReading
Max BeerbohmI was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. ✨ More (1899) Going Back to School282Humanity
Max BeerbohmI need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. ✨ Max Beerbohm (2010). Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story, p.51, The Floating Pr… ▶338LoveThought
Max BeerbohmWhen hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul. ✨ Max Beerbohm (2006). And Even Now, p.91, 1st World Publishing338Truth
Max BeerbohmIt is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making light of any great difficulties… ▶306Sadness
Max BeerbohmFor people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.274Humanity
Max BeerbohmAll fantasy should have a solid base in reality. ✨ Zuleika Dobson. Book by Max Beerbohm, 1946.274ReadingTruth
Max BeerbohmBeauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied. ✨ Max Beerbohm (2010). Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story, p.99, The Floating Press253Love
Max BeerbohmUndergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at O… ▶286Death
Max BeerbohmYou cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. ✨ Zuleika Dobson (1911) ch. 9232Truth
Max BeerbohmTo give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. ✨ Max Beerbohm (2015). The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm,… ▶287Reading
Max BeerbohmThe past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. ✨ Lytton Strachey. Book by Max Beerbohm, Cambridge University Press, 2014.309ReadingTime
Max BeerbohmThe hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it. ✨ Max Beerbohm (2015). The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max … ▶254Reading
Max BeerbohmMen 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 (2015). The P… ▶276HumanityReadingThought
Max BeerbohmWe must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.265Death
Max BeerbohmAfter all, as a pretty girl once said to me, women are a sex by themselves, so to speak. ✨ Sir Max Beerbohm (1896). The Works of Max Beerbohm, p.79, Library of Alexandria254Politics
