Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
Max Beerbohm
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Innate
Guests
Humility
Virtue
More quotes by Max Beerbohm
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
Max Beerbohm
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
Max Beerbohm
Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.
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
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
Max Beerbohm
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
Max Beerbohm
No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
Max Beerbohm
There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.
Max Beerbohm
Only the insane take themselves seriously.
Max Beerbohm
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
I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.
Max Beerbohm
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
Improvisation is the essence of good talk. Heaven defend us from the talker who doles out things prepared for us but let heaven not less defend us from the beautiful spontaneous writer who puts his trust in the inspiration of the moment.
Max Beerbohm
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
Max Beerbohm
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
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
After all, as a pretty girl once said to me, women are a sex by themselves, so to speak.
Max Beerbohm
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
Max Beerbohm
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
Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.
Max Beerbohm
