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 →
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
You will find my last words in the blue folder.
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.
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.