Max Beerbohm Quotes

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

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  People, Weight, Golden

  "The Comparable Max" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. August 3, 2015.

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

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  Inspirational, Kindness, Giving

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.71, New York Review of Books

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• The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.

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  Education, Real, Thinking

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• Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

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  Humility, Acceptance, Triumph

  Saturday Review, 5 Nov. 1904 See Maugham 11

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• 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 a crowd of men.

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  Men, Sheep, Legs

  Zuleika Dobson (1911) ch. 9

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• People are either born hosts or born guests.

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  People, Guests, Host

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• Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet

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  Genius, Fields, Sometimes

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• Golf: The most ... perfect expression of National Stupidity.

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  Golf, Expression, Perfect

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1967). “More”, Freeport, N.Y : Books for Libraries Press

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

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  Work, Sacrifice, Self

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.70, 1st World Publishing

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• The most perfect caricature is that which, on a small surface, with the simplest means, most accurately exaggerates, to the highest point, the peculiarities of a human being, at his most characteristic moment in the most beautiful manner.

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  Beautiful, Mean, Perfect

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.284, New York Review of Books

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• Most women are not as young as they are painted.

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  Women, Maturity, Young

  Yellow Book (1894) vol. 1, p. 67

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• History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

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  History, Doe, Historian

  "The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm".

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• Only the insane take themselves seriously.

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  Godly, Insanity, Insane

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

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  Men, Great Men

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.93, 1st World Publishing

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

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  Dream, Talking, Listening

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• Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.

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  Laughter, Thinking, Legends

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.119, New York Review of Books

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• A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought.

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  Crowds, Size, Emotion

  Max Beerbohm (2010). “Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story”, p.156, The Floating Press

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• People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.

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  Thinking, People, Desire

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.89, New York Review of Books

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• Pessimism does win us great happy moments.

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  Winning, Optimism, Doe

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.88, 1st World Publishing

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• You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

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  Sympathy, Dog, Men

  Zuleika Dobson (1911) ch. 6

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• Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.

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  Hero, Praise, Humans

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.75, New York Review of Books

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• To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.

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  Nature, Natural Instinct, Strongest

  "Yet Again".

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• Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.

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  Fate, Darkness

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

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  Life, Failure, Fall

  "The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm".

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

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  Wise, Art, Work

  "Lytton Strachey". Book by Max Beerbohm, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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