176 Quotes by Max Beerbohm

The true conjurer finds his guerdon in the consciousness of work done perfectly and for its own sake.

I could no more marry a man about whom I could not make a fool of myself than I could marry one who made a fool of himself about me. Else had I long ceased to be a spinster.

He sat gazing into the past.

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

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.