A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.
Max Beerbohm
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
Max Beerbohm
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
Max Beerbohm
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 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 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
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
Max Beerbohm
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Max Beerbohm
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
Max Beerbohm
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
Max Beerbohm
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
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
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
Max Beerbohm
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Max Beerbohm
No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
Max Beerbohm
Nobody ever died of laughter.
Max Beerbohm
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
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
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