Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
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
Means
Pleased
Mean
Produces
Men
Vanity
People
Vain
Effect
Merely
Effects
Produce
Max
More quotes by Max Beerbohm
Only the insane take themselves seriously.
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
I may be old fashioned, but I am right.
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
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
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
The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.
Max Beerbohm
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
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
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
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
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
Max Beerbohm
Heroes are very human, most of them very easily touched by praise.
Max Beerbohm
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
Max Beerbohm
But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.
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 is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
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
Nobody ever died of laughter.
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
