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
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
People are either born hosts or born guests.
O the disgrace of it! - / The scandal, the incredible come-down!
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.
Vulgarity has its uses. Vulgarity often cuts ice which refinement scrapes at vainly.
You will find my last words in the blue folder.
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.
. . . but beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.
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 looked out for what the metropolitan reviewers would have to say. They seemed to fall into two classes: those who had little to say and those who had nothing.
What were they going to do with the Grail when they found it, Mr Rossetti?