Max Beerbohm was a famous Actor from England, who lived between August 24, 1872 and May 20, 1956. He became 83 years old.
Zodiac:
He is born under the zodiac virgo, who is known for Analyzing, Practical, Reflective, Observation, Thoughtful.
Our collection contains 33 quotes who is written / told by Max.
33 Famous quotes by Max Beerbohm
"We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans"
"Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter"
"Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth"
"The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity"
"Nobody ever died of laughter"
"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"
"Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter"
"All fantasy should have a solid base in reality"
"When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul"
"No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'"
"A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her"
"It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality"
"You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men"
"One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests"
"Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful"
"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"
"No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt"
"Most women are not as young as they are painted"
"Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests"
"The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all"
"Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best"
"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"
"There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success"
"People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table"
"People are either born hosts or born guests"
"I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul"
"To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be"
"To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving"
"To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine"
"To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature"
"Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls"
"I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable"
"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"
