Nobody ever died of laughter.
Max Beerbohm
Only the insane take themselves seriously.
Max Beerbohm
Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather
short.
Max Beerbohm
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
Max Beerbohm
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors
of the breakfast table.
Max Beerbohm
You 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.
Max Beerbohm
Zuleika Dobson
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting
than success.
Max Beerbohm
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
Max Beerbohm
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
Max Beerbohm
'The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred
with their bones.' (Shakespeare) At any rate, the sinner has
a better chance than the saint of being hereafter remembered.
We, in whom original sin preponderates, find him easier to
understand.
Max Beerbohm
Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born
to juggle golden balls.
Max Beerbohm
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
Max Beerbohm
Zuleika Dobson
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice
and toil and doubt.
Max Beerbohm
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes
are the windows of the soul.
Max Beerbohm
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by
the suspicion that they will come to bad end.
Max Beerbohm
Zuleika Dobson
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening
to the dreams of Americans.
Max Beerbohm
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
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best
of all ways of giving.
Max Beerbohm
The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is
pride and egoism mixed up with it.
Max Beerbohm
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most
hateful.
Max Beerbohm
Zuleika Dobson
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