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title: "2 Hospitality Quotes By Max Beerbohm"
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> [In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-beerbohm/in-every-human-being-one-or-the-other-of-these-two-instincts-is/)

[Max Beerbohm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-beerbohm/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5b/max-beerbohm-4658_accepting_in-every-human-being-one-or-the-other-of_1284496.png)

> [When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-beerbohm/when-hospitality-becomes-an-art-it-loses-its-very-soul/)

[Max Beerbohm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-beerbohm/)

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## Other authors on Hospitality

- [Ralph Waldo Emerson 8 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hospitality/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

## More by Max Beerbohm

> [Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-beerbohm/only-mediocrity-can-be-trusted-to-be-always-at-its-best/)

[Max Beerbohm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-beerbohm/)

> [People are either born hosts or born guests.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-beerbohm/people-are-either-born-hosts-or-born-guests/)

[Max Beerbohm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-beerbohm/by-its-very-looseness-by-its-way-of-evoking-rather-than-defining/)

[Max Beerbohm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-beerbohm/)

> [There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-beerbohm/there-is-much-to-be-said-for-failure-it-is-more-interesting-than/)

[Max Beerbohm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-beerbohm/)

> [I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-beerbohm/i-believe-the-twenty-four-hour-day-has-come-to-stay/)

[Max Beerbohm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-beerbohm/as-she-sat-here-in-the-bay-window-of-her-room-she-was-not-reviewing/)

[Max Beerbohm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-beerbohm/as-a-teacher-as-a-propagandist-mr-shaw-is-no-good-at-all-even-in-his/)

[Max Beerbohm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-beerbohm/)

> [She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-beerbohm/she-was-one-of-those-people-who-said-i-don-t-know-anything-about/)

[Max Beerbohm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-beerbohm/men-of-genius-are-not-quick-judges-of-character-deep-thinking-and/)

[Max Beerbohm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-beerbohm/)

> [But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-beerbohm/but-to-die-of-laughter-this-too-seems-to-me-a-great-euthanasia/)

[Max Beerbohm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-beerbohm/you-will-find-that-the-woman-who-is-really-kind-to-dogs-is-always-one/)

[Max Beerbohm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-beerbohm/)

> [True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-beerbohm/true-dandyism-is-the-result-of-an-artistic-temperament-working-upon-a/)

[Max Beerbohm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-beerbohm/)

> [“One is taught to refrain from irony, because mankind does tend to take it literally. In the hearing of the gods, who hear all,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-beerbohm/one-is-taught-to-refrain-from-irony-because-mankind-does-tend-to-take/)

[Max Beerbohm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-beerbohm/)

> [Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-beerbohm/every-one-even-the-richest-and-most-munificent-of-men-pays-much-by/)

[Max Beerbohm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-beerbohm/)

> [Men of genius are not quick judges of character.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-beerbohm/men-of-genius-are-not-quick-judges-of-character/)

[Max Beerbohm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-beerbohm/)

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