Author: Max Beerbohm

Quotes

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

- Max Beerbohm

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

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.

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

- Max Beerbohm

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

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

- 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.

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.

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

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

- Max Beerbohm

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

- Max Beerbohm

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

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

- Max Beerbohm

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