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
It is doubtful whether the people of southern England have even yet realized how much introspection there is going on all the time in the Five Towns.
I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Vulgarity has its uses. Vulgarity often cuts ice which refinement scrapes at vainly.
You will find my last words in the blue folder.
Americans have a perfect right to exist. But he did often find himself wishing Mr. Rhodes had not enabled them to exercise that right at Oxford.
A swear-word in a rustic slum / A simple swear-word is to some, / To Masefield something more.
O the disgrace of it! - / The scandal, the incredible come-down!
She was one of those people who said ''I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.''
Men of genius are so few that they ought to atone for their fewness by being at any rate ubiquitous.
I have known 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 mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best
What were they going to do with the Grail when they found it, Mr Rossetti?
Have you ever noticed there is never any third act to a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there.
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.