Quote

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

Max Beerbohm

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Max Beerbohm
Age: 83 †
Born: 1872
Born: August 24
Died: 1956
Died: May 20
Caricaturist
Comedian
Drawer
Essayist
Illustrator
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Painter
Poet
Watercolorist
Writer
London
England
Sir Max Beerbohm
Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
Sir Beerbohm
Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
Reality
Solid
Base
Fantasy

More quotes by Max Beerbohm

Image
Only the insane take themselves seriously.
Max Beerbohm
Image
It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks but that is another matter.
Max Beerbohm
Image
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
Max Beerbohm
Image
Nobody ever died of laughter.
Max Beerbohm
Image
The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
Max Beerbohm
Image
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
Max Beerbohm
Image
But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.
Max Beerbohm
Image
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
Max Beerbohm
Image
Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.
Max Beerbohm
Image
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Max Beerbohm
Image
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
Max Beerbohm
Image
I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.
Max Beerbohm
Image
The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.
Max Beerbohm
Image
It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making light of any great difficulties or grief's that may beset us.
Max Beerbohm
Image
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
Max Beerbohm
Image
Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.
Max Beerbohm
Image
Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.
Max Beerbohm
Image
A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
Max Beerbohm
Image
Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.
Max Beerbohm
Image
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
Max Beerbohm