All Max Beerbohm Quotes
- The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it. Altruistic
- Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.... Allied
- The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.... Art
- Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was… Any
- Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint. Desert
- "After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak." All
- Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet Been
- When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul. Art
- Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school… All
- As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal. All
- Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie. Cheque
- Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision. Admiration
- The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them. Admire
- A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral. Cities
- Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise. Easily
- Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused. Aroused
- Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry. All
- I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things… Accustomed
- Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by… Good
- People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk. Desire