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.
She was one of those people who said ''I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.''
She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.
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.
People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.
People are either born hosts or born guests.
Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
O the disgrace of it! - / The scandal, the incredible come-down!
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.
Men of genius are so few that they ought to atone for their fewness by being at any rate ubiquitous.