Max Beerbohm Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.

  Max Beerbohm

  Dark, Race, Spirit

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1960). “And Even Now: And, A Christmas Garland”

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

  Max Beerbohm

  Two, Class, Might

  And Even Now (1920) "Hosts and Guests"

• To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.

  Max Beerbohm

  Lady Macbeth, Host, Standing Out

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.67, New York Review of Books

• In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

  Max Beerbohm

  Character, Class, Two

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.81, 1st World Publishing

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