176 Quotes by Max Beerbohm

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

She was one of those people who said ''I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.''

Men of genius are so few that they ought to atone for their fewness by being at any rate ubiquitous.

. . . but beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.

I looked out for what the metropolitan reviewers would have to say. They seemed to fall into two classes: those who had little to say and those who had nothing.

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Have you ever noticed there is never any third act to a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there.