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
For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.
Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.
Every kind of writing is hypocritical.
The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
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.