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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
Max Beerbohm
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Max Beerbohm
Age: 83 †
Born: 1872
Born: August 24
Died: 1956
Died: May 20
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Sir Max Beerbohm
Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
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Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
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More quotes by Max Beerbohm
A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.
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
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
The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.
Max Beerbohm
The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.
Max Beerbohm
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
Max Beerbohm
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
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
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
Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.
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
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
Max Beerbohm
Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.
Max Beerbohm
After all, as a pretty girl once said to me, women are a sex by themselves, so to speak.
Max Beerbohm
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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
The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
Max Beerbohm
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
Max Beerbohm
In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
Max Beerbohm
