A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Few, as I have said, are the humorists who can induce this state. To master and dissolve us, to give us the… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
There is laughter that goes so far as to lose all touch with its motive, and to exist only, grossly, in itself.… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
For a young man, sleep is a sure solvent of distress. There whirls not for him in the night any so hideous… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry — Max Beerbohm Copy Share
“As she sat here in the bay-window of her room, she was not reviewing the splendid pageant of her past. She was a young… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share
As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share
She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share
True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share
“One is taught to refrain from irony, because mankind does tend to take it literally. In the hearing of the gods, who hear all,… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share
Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share
