In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality,… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which… — 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 person whose reveries never were in retrospect. For her the part was no treasury of distinct memories, all hoarded and classified, some brighter than others and more highly valued. All memories were for her but as… — 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 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
