176 Quotes by Max Beerbohm

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other."[1880]

Golf: The most ... perfect expression of National Stupidity.

People are either born hosts or born guests.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.

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

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.