Max Beerbohm Quotes

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

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

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

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

The past is a work of art free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire symp...

I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.

Humility is a virtue and it is a virtue innate in guests.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a pe...

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionat...

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that...

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

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

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and ...

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay in some affliction or defect either physical or sp...

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.