Max Beerbohm quotes
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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 up.
Men of genius are so few that they ought to atone for their fewness by being at any rate ubiquitous.
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
Nobody ever died of laughter.
One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
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