Sir Max Beerbohm Quotes
She was one of those people who said "I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.
I know of no man of genius who had
not to pay, in some affliction or
defect either physical or spiritual,
for what the gods had given him.
Only the insane take themselves seriously.
. . . but beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.
But the dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.
No fine work can be done without concentration and selfsacrifice and toil and doubt.
Strange when you come to think of it, that of all the countless folk who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history for in legend as having died of laughter.
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.