Quotes by Beerbohm, Sir Max

"There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success."

Beerbohm, Sir Max on failure
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"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."

Beerbohm, Sir Max on genius
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"The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end."

Beerbohm, Sir Max on greatness   

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"One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests."

Beerbohm, Sir Max on guests
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"To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine."

Beerbohm, Sir Max on history and historians   

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"Nobody ever died of laughter."

Beerbohm, Sir Max on laughter
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"Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best."

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"She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like."

Beerbohm, Sir Max on music   

"Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter."

Beerbohm, Sir Max on nonsense   

"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."

Beerbohm, Sir Max on portraits   

"No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt."

Beerbohm, Sir Max on sacrifice   

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"To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself."

Beerbohm, Sir Max on vanity   

"I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable."

Beerbohm, Sir Max on colleges and universities   

"The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all."

Beerbohm, Sir Max on science