Words matter. These are the best Max Beerbohm Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
Nobody ever died of laughter.
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
No Roman ever was able to say, ‘I dined last night with the Borgias’.
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.
A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
