Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
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
Leader
Keep
Distresses
Thought
Oblivion
Distress
Pace
Leaders
Pass
Failure
More quotes by Max Beerbohm
Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.
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
A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.
Max Beerbohm
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
Max Beerbohm
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
Max Beerbohm
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
Max Beerbohm
I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.
Max Beerbohm
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
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
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
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 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
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
Max Beerbohm
The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
Max Beerbohm
After all, as a pretty girl once said to me, women are a sex by themselves, so to speak.
Max Beerbohm
But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.
Max Beerbohm
No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
Max Beerbohm
True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.
Max Beerbohm
Nobody ever died of laughter.
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
