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I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
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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More quotes by Max Beerbohm
Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.
Max Beerbohm
As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.
Max Beerbohm
A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
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
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
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
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
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
Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.
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
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
A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.
Max Beerbohm
True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.
Max Beerbohm
Only the insane take themselves seriously.
Max Beerbohm
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
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
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
Max Beerbohm
I may be old fashioned, but I am right.
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
But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.
Max Beerbohm
