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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
Sir Beerbohm
Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
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More quotes by 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
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
Max Beerbohm
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
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
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
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Max Beerbohm
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
Max Beerbohm
Heroes are very human, most of them very easily touched by praise.
Max Beerbohm
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
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
Max Beerbohm
Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.
Max Beerbohm
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
Max Beerbohm
Only the insane take themselves seriously.
Max Beerbohm
The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with 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
The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.
Max Beerbohm
No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
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
A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.
Max Beerbohm
Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.
Max Beerbohm
