Max Beerbohm

Most women are not as young as they are painted. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#painted #women #women are #young

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#dined #ever #i #last #last night

Nobody ever died of laughter. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#ever #laughter #nobody

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#best #mediocrity #only #trusted

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#breakfast #dreams #insist #people #table

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#born #golden #heavy #heavy weights #juggle

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#between #conceit #delicate #delicate balance #modesty

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#cowards #makes #us

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#accurate #brilliant #exhaustive #far #far less

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#host #hostess #lady #macbeth #mankind