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Famous Max Beerbohm Quotes
Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm
Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm
“For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.”
“The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.”
“History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.”
“The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.”
Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm
“To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.”
Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm
“There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.”
Source: And Even Now
Source: And Even Now: And, A Christmas Garland
“Pessimism does win us great happy moments.”
Source: And Even Now
Source: Mainly on the Air
Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm
“She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.”
Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm
“Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.”
Source: And Even Now
“The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.”
Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm
“Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.”
Source: Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story
“The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.”
Source: Selected Prose
“Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.”
Source: Zuleika Dobson
“"After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."”
Source: The Works of Max Beerbohm
“When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.”
Source: And Even Now
Source: Around Theatres
Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm
“The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.”
Source: Mainly on the Air
“A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.”
Source: Selected essays
“Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.”
Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm
Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm
Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm
Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm
Source: And Even Now
Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm
“A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.”
Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm
Source: Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story