Max Beerbohm
Max Beerbohm
Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohmwas an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist. He first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humorist. He was the drama critic for the Saturday Review from 1898 until 1910, when he relocated to Rapallo, Italy. In his later years he was popular for his occasional radio broadcasts. Among his best-known works is his only novel, Zuleika Dobson, published in 1911. His caricatures, drawn usually in pen or pencil with muted watercolour tinting,...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth24 August 1872
One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
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.
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.
History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.