Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.
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
Supplement
Needful
Supplements
Outcome
Outcomes
Rather
Work
Men
More quotes by Max Beerbohm
No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
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
A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
Max Beerbohm
Nobody ever died of laughter.
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 prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.
Max Beerbohm
True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.
Max Beerbohm
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
Max Beerbohm
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
Max Beerbohm
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
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
Death cancels all engagements.
Max Beerbohm
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
Max Beerbohm
After all, as a pretty girl once said to me, women are a sex by themselves, so to speak.
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
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
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 hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
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
Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.
Max Beerbohm
