176 Quotes by Max Beerbohm

It is so much easier to covet what one hasn't than to revel in what one has. Also, it is so much easier to be enthusiastic about what exists than about what doesn't.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Nobody ever died of laughter.

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.