Egoism Mixed Quotes by Max Beerbohm

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

— Max Beerbohm

People are either born hosts or born guests.

— Max Beerbohm

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

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

— Max Beerbohm

I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay.

— Max Beerbohm

“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

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

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

— 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…

— Max Beerbohm

But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.

— Max Beerbohm

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

True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.

— Max Beerbohm