Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm (London 24 August 1872 – 20 May 1956 Rapallo) was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist best known today for his 1911 novel Zuleika Dobson. Read full biography of Max Beerbohm →
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
Nobody ever died of laughter.
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
I 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.
Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm (London 24 August 1872 – 20 May 1956 Rapallo) was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist best known today for his 1911 novel Zuleika Dobson.