Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
Max Beerbohm
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
Max Beerbohm
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
Max Beerbohm
I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Max Beerbohm
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
Men of genius are so few that they ought to atone for their fewness by being at any rate ubiquitous.
Max Beerbohm
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
Max Beerbohm
Nobody ever died of laughter.
Max Beerbohm
One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
Max Beerbohm
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
Max Beerbohm
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
Max Beerbohm
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
Max Beerbohm
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
Max Beerbohm
There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
Max Beerbohm
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Max Beerbohm
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
Max Beerbohm
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
Max Beerbohm
You will find my last words in the blue folder.
Max Beerbohm
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Type:
Actor
Date of Birth:
1872-08-24
Year of Death:
1956
Nationality:
English |
