176 Quotes by Max Beerbohm

It is easier, as Michelet suggested, for a woman to change her opinion of a man than for him to change his opinion of himself.

Dear posterity was of a sentimental, not a realistic, habit.

If a man carry his sense of proportion far enough, lo! he is back at the point from which he started. He knows that eternity, as conceived by him, is but an instant in eternity, and infinity but a speck in infinity.

It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making light of any great difficulties or grief’s that may beset us.

She was one of those who are born to make chaos cosmic.

But to die of laughter – this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.

Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man’s footprint.

A man’s work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.

From those pedestals which intersperse the railing of the Sheldonian, the high grim busts of the Roman Emperors stared down at the fair stranger in the equipage. Zuleika returned their stare with but a casual glance. The inanimate had little charm for her.