Quotes of Max Beerbohm - somelinesforyou

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

- 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

“ O the disgrace of it! - / The scandal, the incredible come-down! ”

- Max Beerbohm

“ Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls. ”

- Max Beerbohm

“ 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. ”

- Max Beerbohm

“ I know of 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. ”

- 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

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

- Max Beerbohm

“ Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth. ”

- 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

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

- Max Beerbohm

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

- 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. ”

- Max Beerbohm

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

- Max Beerbohm

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

- Max Beerbohm

“ The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all. ”

- Max Beerbohm

“ The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all. ”

- Max Beerbohm

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

- Max Beerbohm

“ Vulgarity has its uses. Vulgarity often cuts ice which refinement scrapes at vainly. ”

- Max Beerbohm

“ Vulgarity has its uses. Vulgarity often cuts ice which refinement scrapes at vainly. ”

- Max Beerbohm

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

- Max Beerbohm

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

- Max Beerbohm

“ 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. ”

- Max Beerbohm

“ Few, as I have said, are the humorists who can induce this state. To master and dissolve us, to give us the joy of being worn down and tired out with laughter, is a success to be won by no man save in virtue of a rare staying-power. Laughter becomes extreme only if it be consecutive… ”

- Max Beerbohm

“ O the disgrace of it! - / The scandal, the incredible come-down! ”

- Max Beerbohm

“ Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge. ”

- Max Beerbohm

“ The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all. ”

- Max Beerbohm

“ The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all. ”

- Max Beerbohm

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

- Max Beerbohm

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

- Max Beerbohm
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