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Men Quotes by 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 people…
- To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
- You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.
- The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
- Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with…
- I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods…
- It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his…
- Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.
- Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
- Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.
- 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…
- A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.
- You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make…
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