1872-1956, British Actor
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
Sir Max Beerbohm – [Nonsense]
I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Sir Max Beerbohm – [Colleges and Universities]
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.
Sir Max Beerbohm – [Portraits]
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.
Sir Max Beerbohm – [Genius]
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Sir Max Beerbohm – [Sacrifice]
Nobody ever died of laughter.
Sir Max Beerbohm – [Laughter]
One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
Sir Max Beerbohm – [Guests]
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
Sir Max Beerbohm – [Mediocrity]
She was one of those people who said ''I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.''
Sir Max Beerbohm – [Music]
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
Sir Max Beerbohm – [Greatness]
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
Sir Max Beerbohm – [Conscience]
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
Sir Max Beerbohm – [Failure]
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Sir Max Beerbohm – [History and Historians]
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.
Sir Max Beerbohm – [Vanity]