01UndatedOnly mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.Max Beerbohm / quote ↗
02UndatedI utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.Max Beerbohm / quote ↗
03UndatedNo fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.Max Beerbohm / quote ↗
04UndatedYou cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.Max Beerbohm / quote ↗
05UndatedThere is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.Max Beerbohm / quote ↗
06UndatedThe dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.Max Beerbohm / quote ↗
07UndatedTo give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.Max Beerbohm / quote ↗
09UndatedI have known no man of genius who had not to pay in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual for what the gods had given him.Max Beerbohm / quote ↗
11UndatedTo 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 / quote ↗
13UndatedSome people are born to lift heavy weights some are born to juggle golden balls.Max Beerbohm / quote ↗
14UndatedWe must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.Max Beerbohm / quote ↗
15UndatedPeople who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.Max Beerbohm / quote ↗
17UndatedAs a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.Max Beerbohm / quote ↗
18UndatedYou will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.Max Beerbohm / quote ↗
