Top 35 Quotes by Max Beerbohm

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

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.

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

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

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

Nobody ever died of laughter.

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.