Max Beerbohm Short Quotes

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Most women are not so young as they are painted.

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The Duke had an intense horror of unmarried girls.

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The Nonconformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

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Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.

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There is always something rather absurd about the past.

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The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.

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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

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Everywhere he found his precept checkmated by his example.

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The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
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The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.

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History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

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Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.

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Lift latch, step in, be welcome, Sir,
Albeit to see you I'm unglad.

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Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.

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Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.

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A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.

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The attempt to conceive Infinity had always been quite arduous enough for me.

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I was not unpopular [at school]…It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

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There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

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She had the sensitiveness, though no other quality whatsoever, of the true artist.

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To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

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Vulgarity has its uses. Vulgarity often cuts ice which refinement scrapes at vainly.

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I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.

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

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Enter Michael Angelo. Andrea del Sarto appears for a moment at a window. Pippa passes.

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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

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He was too much concerned with his own perfection ever to think of admiring any one else.

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"After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."

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