Max Beerbohm

For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#misattributed-abraham-lincoln #humor

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#fantasy #reality #should #solid

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#character #deep #genius #high #i

A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#fixed #half #hearts #her #hundred

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#humility #innate #virtue

Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#hatred #loved #most #objects #once

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#ever #his #law #man #nature

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#done #doubt #fine #self-sacrifice #toil

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#divisible #great #guests #hosts #into

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#instinct #nature #still #strongest