Sir Max Beerbohm

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

— Sir Max Beerbohm

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

— Sir Max Beerbohm

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

— Sir Max Beerbohm

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.

— Sir Max Beerbohm

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

— Sir Max Beerbohm

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

— Sir Max Beerbohm

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

— Sir Max Beerbohm

Nobody ever died of laughter.

— Sir Max Beerbohm

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

— Sir Max Beerbohm

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

— Sir Max Beerbohm

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

— Sir 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.

— Sir Max Beerbohm

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

— Sir Max Beerbohm

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.

— Sir Max Beerbohm