176 Quotes by Max Beerbohm

Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character.

The most perfect caricature is that which, on a small surface, with the simplest means, most accurately exaggerates, to the highest point, the peculiarities of a human being, at his most characteristic moment in the most beautiful manner.

For a young man, sleep is a sure solvent of distress. There whirls not for him in the night any so hideous phantasmagoria as will not become, in the clarity of the next morning, a spruce procession for him to lead. Brief the vague horror of his awakening; memory sweeps back to him, and he sees nothing dreadful after all. "Why not?" is the sun's bright message to him, and "Why not indeed?" his answer.

I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay.

It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks; but that is another matter.

Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me.

By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.

I may be old fashioned, but I am right.