The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. ✨ Lyt…

Max Beerbohm
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The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. ✨ Lytton Strachey. Book by Max Beerbohm, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests. ✨ Max Beerbohm (2015). The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm, p.69, New York Review of Books
One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests. ✨ And Even Now (1920) Hosts and Guests
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. ✨ Max Beerbohm (2015). The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm, p.94, N … ▶
Pessimism does win us great happy moments. ✨ Max Beerbohm (2006). And Even Now, p.88, 1st World Publishing
Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes. ✨ Sir Max Beerbohm (1958). Mainly on … ▶

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. ✨ Lytton Strachey. Book by Max Beerbohm, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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