Max Beerbohm Quotes

Some people are born to lift heavy weights some are born to juggle golden balls.
Max Beerbohm
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Max Beerbohm
Humility is a virtue and it is a virtue innate in guests.
Max Beerbohm
The past is a work of art free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
Max Beerbohm
To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.
Max Beerbohm
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
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
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
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
The past is a work of art free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
Max Beerbohm
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
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
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
Max Beerbohm
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
Max Beerbohm
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Max Beerbohm
I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.
Max Beerbohm
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
Max Beerbohm