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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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Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
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More quotes by Max Beerbohm
Heroes are very human, most of them very easily touched by praise.
Max Beerbohm
I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.
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
A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
Max Beerbohm
Only the insane take themselves seriously.
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
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
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
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
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
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
No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
Max Beerbohm
The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
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 hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
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
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
Max Beerbohm
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
Max Beerbohm
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
Max Beerbohm
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
Max Beerbohm
