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Max Beerbohm
Only mediocrity can...
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
Source: In Conversations...
People who insist...
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
Anything that is...
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide...
It is easier...
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
Source: In The Speaker's...
Of course we...
Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired...
Americans have a...
Americans have a perfect right to exist. But he did often find himself wishing Mr. Rhodes had not enabled them to...
Good sense about...
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
Every kind of...
Every kind of writing is hypocritical.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...
No fine work...
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Great men are...
Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.
Source: And...
I was a...
I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
The lower one's...
The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.
Source: Seven...
The past is...
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
Source: In The...
Have you ever...
Have you ever noticed there is never any third act to a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave...
I know of...
I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the...
Beauty and the...
Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.
Source: Zuleika Dobson, Ch....
Men of genius...
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which...
When hospitality becomes...
When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul.
Source: Hosts and Guests,...
To give an...
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than...
The loveliest face...
The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an...