Max Beerbohm Quotes

"Nobody ever died of laughter."
-Max Beerbohm

"It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality."
-Max Beerbohm

"To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving."
-Max Beerbohm in Giving quotes.

"You 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

"I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul."
-Max Beerbohm in Quotations quotes.

"Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge."
-Max Beerbohm

"The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity."
-Max Beerbohm

"No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. "
-Max Beerbohm

"Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best."
-Max Beerbohm