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Quotes by Max Beerbohm

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
– 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 was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
– 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
Men of genius are so few that they ought to atone for their fewness by being at any rate ubiquitous.
– Max Beerbohm
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
– Max Beerbohm
Nobody ever died of laughter.
– 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
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
– Max Beerbohm
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
– Max Beerbohm
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
– Max Beerbohm
There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
– Max Beerbohm
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
– Max Beerbohm
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
– Max Beerbohm
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
– Max Beerbohm
You will find my last words in the blue folder.
– Max Beerbohm
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
– Max Beerbohm
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.
– Max Beerbohm
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
– Max Beerbohm
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
– Max Beerbohm
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
– Max Beerbohm
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
– 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
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