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
Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness.
People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.
A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.
Golf: The most ... perfect expression of National Stupidity.
The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.
Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.
The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.
The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.
I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.
It is so much easier to covet what one hasn't than to revel in what one has. Also, it is so much easier to be enthusiastic about what exists than about what doesn't.
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.