Famous Quotes / Max Beerbohm
24 Quotations by Max Beerbohm
- 1. Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I sus ...
- 2. Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
- 3. Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
- 4. I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or sp ...
- 5. I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
- 6. It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is l ...
- 7. Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial ...
- 8. No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
- 9. No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
- 10. Nobody ever died of laughter.
- 11. One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
- 12. Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
- 13. Only the insane take themselves quite seriously.
- 14. She was one of those people who said "I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like."
- 15. Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
- 16. The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad ...
- 17. The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
- 18. The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
- 19. There is always something rather absurd about the past.
- 20. There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.