Max Beerbohm Quotes - Page 4

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• What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century

  Max Beerbohm

  Oscars, Next, Doe

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• Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

  Max Beerbohm

  Hate, School, Boys

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1970). “Selected prose”

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

  Max Beerbohm

  Coward, Non Conformist, Conscience

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.142, New York Review of Books

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• As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

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  Teacher, Personality, Generations

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1954). “Around Theatres”

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• By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.

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  Writing, Emotional, Way

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.170, 1st World Publishing

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• It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks; but that is another matter.

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  Taken, Gone, Matter

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.89, New York Review of Books

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• I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.

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  Laughter, Masters, Take Me

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.116, New York Review of Books

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• She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

  Max Beerbohm

  Music, People, Said

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• Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.

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  Money, Men, Light

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.70, New York Review of Books

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• Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.

  Max Beerbohm

  Vision, Admiration, Glorious

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• The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.

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  Criticism, Kind, Admire

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1958). “Mainly on the Air”

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• I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

  Max Beerbohm

  Boys, Oxford, Max

  More (1899) "Going Back to School"

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• Few, as I have said, are the humorists who can induce this state. To master and dissolve us, to give us the joy of being worn down and tired out with laughter, is a success to be won by no man save in virtue of a rare staying-power. Laughter becomes extreme only if it be consecutive. There must be no pauses for recovery. Touch-and-go humour, however happy, is not enough. The jester must be able to grapple his theme and hang on to it, twisting it this way and that, and making it yield magically all manner of strange and precious things.

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  Laughter, Tired, Recovery

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.184, 1st World Publishing

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• But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.

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  Laughter, Euthanasia, Dies

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.119, New York Review of Books

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• The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.

  Max Beerbohm

  Games, Play, Two

  'Zuleika Dobson' (1911) ch. 15

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• Men of genius are not quick judges of character.

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  Character, Men, Judging

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.94, New York Review of Books

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• Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness.

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  Respect, Greatness, Men

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.179, 1st World Publishing

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

  Max Beerbohm

  People, Politics, Kind

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• A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.

  Max Beerbohm

  Cities, Quiet, Contradiction

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1958). “Selected essays”

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• Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.

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  Lust

  Max Beerbohm (2010). “Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story”, p.99, The Floating Press

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• The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

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  Pride, Instinct, Egoism

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.66, New York Review of Books

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

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  Two, Class, Might

  And Even Now (1920) "Hosts and Guests"

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