Max Beerbohm Quotes

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To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
Max Beerbohm

Best, Giving, Give

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
Max Beerbohm

Nature, Destroy, Instinct

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

Reality, Fantasy, Solid

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

Quality, Claim, Confess

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

Woman, Hatred, Once

A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.
Max Beerbohm

Lost, Eyes, Her

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

Humility, Virtue, Guests

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.
Max Beerbohm

Nature, Law, Seems

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Max Beerbohm

Work, Doubt, Done

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, Character, Deep

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
Max Beerbohm

Great, Two, Might

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
Max Beerbohm

Success, Failure, Said

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Max Beerbohm

Give, Far, Less

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.
Max Beerbohm

Spiritual, Him, Genius

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
Max Beerbohm

Eyes, Soul, Windows

People are either born hosts or born guests.
Max Beerbohm

Born, Either, Guests

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
Max Beerbohm

Between, Balance, Popularity

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.
Max Beerbohm

Good, Teacher, Generation

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
Max Beerbohm

Done, Worth, Wide

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
Max Beerbohm

Good, Sense, Matter

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Max Beerbohm

Made, Boy, Modest

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
Max Beerbohm

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

Women, Young, Painted

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

Night, Able, Last

Nobody ever died of laughter.
Max Beerbohm

Laughter, Nobody, Died

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: August 24, 1872

Died: May 20, 1956

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