Max Beerbohm quote: "It is doubtful whether the people of southern England have even yet realized how much introspection there is going on all the time in the Five Towns."

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
MAX BEERBOHM

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other peo...
MAX BEERBOHM

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul
MAX BEERBOHM

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
MAX BEERBOHM

I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
MAX BEERBOHM

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
MAX BEERBOHM

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is l...
MAX BEERBOHM

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other peopl...
MAX BEERBOHM

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
MAX BEERBOHM

Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
MAX BEERBOHM

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
MAX BEERBOHM

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.
MAX BEERBOHM

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad...
MAX BEERBOHM

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial...
MAX BEERBOHM

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than m...
MAX BEERBOHM

Nobody ever died of laughter.
MAX BEERBOHM

How many charming talents have been spoiled by the instilled desire to do 'important' work! Some peo...
MAX BEERBOHM

The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a dist...
MAX BEERBOHM

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
MAX BEERBOHM

I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spir...
MAX BEERBOHM

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
MAX BEERBOHM

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
MAX BEERBOHM

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
MAX BEERBOHM

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
MAX BEERBOHM

The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.
MAX BEERBOHM

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
MAX BEERBOHM

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
MAX BEERBOHM

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
MAX BEERBOHM

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
MAX BEERBOHM

When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul.
MAX BEERBOHM

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that...
MAX BEERBOHM

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and ...
MAX BEERBOHM

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality
MAX BEERBOHM

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul
MAX BEERBOHM

Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful
MAX BEERBOHM

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
MAX BEERBOHM

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt
MAX BEERBOHM

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best
MAX BEERBOHM

Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.
MAX BEERBOHM

I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay.
MAX BEERBOHM

Fate wrote her [Queen Caroline] a most tremendous tragedy, and she played it in tights.
MAX BEERBOHM

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to bad e...
MAX BEERBOHM

By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, En...
MAX BEERBOHM

Every kind of writing is hypocritical
MAX BEERBOHM

You will think me lamentably crude: my experience of life has been drawn from life itself
MAX BEERBOHM

Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
MAX BEERBOHM

And love levels all, doesn't it? Love and the Board school.
MAX BEERBOHM

She was one of those people who said ''I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.''
MAX BEERBOHM

I looked out for what the metropolitan reviewers would have to say. They seemed to fall into two cla...
MAX BEERBOHM

O the disgrace of it! - / The scandal, the incredible come-down!
MAX BEERBOHM

Have you ever noticed there is never any third act to a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of ter...
MAX BEERBOHM

You will find my last words in the blue folder.
MAX BEERBOHM

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire symp...
MAX BEERBOHM

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. T...
MAX BEERBOHM

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality
MAX BEERBOHM

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table
MAX BEERBOHM

People are either born hosts or born guests
MAX BEERBOHM

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
MAX BEERBOHM

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
MAX BEERBOHM

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
MAX BEERBOHM

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
MAX BEERBOHM

What were they going to do with the Grail when they found it, Mr Rossetti?
MAX BEERBOHM

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and ...
MAX BEERBOHM

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
MAX BEERBOHM

People are either born hosts or born guests.
MAX BEERBOHM

A swear-word in a rustic slum / A simple swear-word is to some, / To Masefield something more.
MAX BEERBOHM

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or sp...
MAX BEERBOHM

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a pe...
MAX BEERBOHM

Most women are not as young as they are painted.
MAX BEERBOHM

Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
MAX BEERBOHM

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
MAX BEERBOHM

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other peopl...
MAX BEERBOHM

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I sus...
MAX BEERBOHM

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature
MAX BEERBOHM

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad...
SIR MAX BEERBOHM

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
SIR MAX BEERBOHM

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
SIR MAX BEERBOHM

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence ag...
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE

A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life.
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE

Sirs, I have tested your machine [a gramophone]. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long...
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE

The national sport of England is obstacle-racing. People fill their rooms with useless and cumbersom...
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE

He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE

I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE

When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE

A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE

Be a doer, not a stewer.
MAX LUCADO

It's music. It's supposed to be fun and inspirational. You have to be inspired. If I did it ...
MAX MARTIN

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo...
MAX EASTMAN

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.
MAX EUWE

These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people.
MAX CANNON

One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you k...
MAX LUCADO

I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.
MAX CANNON

It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the oppos...
MAX WEBER

The sensitive ear of the musician detects a certain musical note in every city which is different fr...
MAX HEINDEL

I saw my first two Broadway shows when I was 4 years old, 'The Lion King' and 'Beauty an...
MAX SCHNEIDER

I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated...
MAX WEINBERG

The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us w...
MAX WEBER

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.
MAX STIRNER

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his po...
MAX WEBER

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of ...
MAX WEBER

I am under the impression that in nine out of ten cases I deal with windbags who do not fully realiz...
MAX WEBER

My sister died and my mum was really distant, as you do - you don't expect your offspring to die...
MAX WALKER

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.
MAX STIRNER

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.
MAX WEBER

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.
MAX KAUFFMAN

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources an...
MAX BILL

The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel agai...
MAX PERCY

The noblest men of all ages, Christian saints of the most transcendent spirituality have attained th...
MAX HEINDEL

My first girlfriend broke up with me on a yellow legal pad. After she picked me up from the airport ...
MAX WINKLER

We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong.
MAX CANNON

You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right ...
MAX EHRMANN

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He ex...
MAX FRISCH

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. -Max Frisch.
MAX FRISCH

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.
MAX STIRNER

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as...
MAX EHRMANN

Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps...
MAX WEBER

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
MAX LERNER

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we c...
MAX LERNER

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is ri...
MAX LUCADO

I Choose Love...
No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness. I choose love....
MAX LUCADO

The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's proble...
MAX LUCADO

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.
MAX LUCADO

He'd basically fallen in love with her on the spot. Well, no, that wasn't accurate; that implied a b...
MAX BARRY

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call ci...
MAX LERNER

Music is the soul of language.
MAX HEINDEL

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by...
MAX WEBER

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
MAX LERNER

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off towa...
MAX EASTMAN

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quit...
MAX WEBER

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
MAX EASTMAN

Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
MAX MULLER

Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!
MAX SCHMELLING

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meanin...
MAX FRISCH

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolut...
MAX LERNER

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
MAX EASTMAN

When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every tim...
MAX MCGEE

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
MAX JACOB

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
MAX LERNER

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
MAX LERNER

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grand...
MAX LERNER

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
MAX FRISCH

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.
MAX ASNAS

If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter.
MAX HASTINGS

If you are losing a tug-of-war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can a...
MAX GUNTHER

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
MAX EASTMAN

It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win a...
MAX GUNTHER

Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.
MAX LUCADE

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us cease...
MAX LERNER

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What...
MAX STIRNER

The scientific theory I like the best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost ai...
MAX BORN

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that ...
MAX EASTMAN

Then I heard this young veteran on TV speaking about the war. It was John Kerry. He put everything I...
MAX CLELAND

The Bible tells me that no greater love has a man than to lay down his life for his friends. John Ke...
MAX CLELAND

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all...
MAX BORN

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meani...
MAX FRISCH

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
MAX FRISCH

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of...
MAX NORDAU

Ladies, let me give you some advice. You can throw all your stupid fucking chick-lit, self-help, why...
TUCKER MAX

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
MAX FRISCH

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, b...
MAX PLANCK

There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour ou...
MAX LUCADO

The American woman is more stylish than any other in the world. She understands the power of good st...
MAX AZRIA

The '60s were an amazing time.
PETER MAX

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordinati...
MAX WEBER

I love Jonathan Adler but more importantly I love throws. To clarify, a throw is not to be confused ...
MAX GREENFIELD

I've got to restructure all my personal life now in order to accommodate public service, which i...
MAX BURNS

I'd say the real turn in my career came when I did the Dolce & Gabbana International Ad Camp...
MAX SCHNEIDER

Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alon...
MAX BILL

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very he...
MAX IRONS

I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?
MAX SCHMELING

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
MAX EASTMAN

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but r...
MAX PLANCK

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of...
MAX WEBER

Advancement and promotion in Mystic Masonry is not dependent on favor; it cannot be given till it ha...
MAX HEINDEL

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for c...
MAX CARVER

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of lif...
MAX LUCADO

A personal brand is relevant to people who sell or create something relevant to who they are as a pe...
TUCKER MAX

I've come to learn that what really matters is the relationship, the quality of the relationship...
TUCKER MAX

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.
TUCKER MAX

I was not developmentally disabled, but didn't mature at the same rate other kids did.
TUCKER MAX

I always laugh when people call me a misogynist. I... love women! Everything I do is to impress wome...
TUCKER MAX

Usually, whatever people's particular political leaning is, they either think I'm just like ...
TUCKER MAX

Social media for the majority of companies is not about helping customers or improving products.
TUCKER MAX

At some point in their life, everyone thinks they should go to law school. You may in fact think you...
TUCKER MAX

If you don't have a job right now, and you have a computer and a basic intelligence level, I gua...
TUCKER MAX

Think about it: If you don't have any actual, tangible skills, then how can you do anything? You...
TUCKER MAX

If you like to argue just for the sake of being contentious, you shouldn't pick a job based on t...
TUCKER MAX

When I give speeches at college, I don't tell stories, I talk about what it is to live your drea...
TUCKER MAX

Helping reproductive services doesn't just help women in isolation. It helps men just as much.
TUCKER MAX

The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around...
TUCKER MAX

No one has probably helped me more with my narcissism than my dog.
TUCKER MAX

Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.
TUCKER MAX

Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essentia...
TUCKER MAX

No one wants to read a story where I saw a cute puppy on the street and I petted it. I mean, that...
TUCKER MAX

There aren't a whole lot of people in culture that are unapologetically masculine.
TUCKER MAX

It is doubtful whether the people of southern England have even yet realized how much introspection there is going on all the time in the Five Towns.

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It is doubtful whether the people of southern England have even yet realized how much introspection there is going on all the time in the Five Towns.

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