Has the gift of laughter been withdrawn from me? I protest that I do still, at the age of forty-seven, laugh often… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is… — 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
I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me. — 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
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 Image
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
