Max Beerbohm

Only mediocrity can...

Only mediocrity can...

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

Source: In Conversations...

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People who insist...

People who insist...

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

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Anything that is...

Anything that is...

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

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It is easier...

It is easier...

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

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Of course we...

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...

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Americans have a...

Americans have a...

Americans have a perfect right to exist. But he did often find himself wishing Mr. Rhodes had not enabled them to...

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Good sense about...

Good sense about...

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

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Every kind of...

Every kind of...

Every kind of writing is hypocritical.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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No fine work...

No fine work...

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

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Great men are...

Great men are...

Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.

Source: And...

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I was a...

I was a...

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

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The lower one's...

The lower one's...

The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.

Source: Seven...

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The past is...

The past is...

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

Source: In The...

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Have you ever...

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...

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I know of...

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...

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Beauty and the...

Beauty and the...

Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.

Source: Zuleika Dobson, Ch....

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Men of genius...

Men of genius...

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which...

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When hospitality becomes...

When hospitality becomes...

When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul.

Source: Hosts and Guests,...

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To give an...

To give an...

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

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The loveliest face...

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...

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