Max Beerbohm Quotes

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

Death cancels all engagements.

One has never known a good man to whom dogs were not dear; but many of the best women have no such fondness. You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men. For the attractive woman, dogs are mere dumb and restless brutes — possibly dangerous, certainly soulless. Yet will coquetry teach her to caress any dog in the presence of a man enslaved by her.

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

She was a young person whose reveries never were in retrospect. For her past was no treasury of distinct memories, all hoarded and classified, some brighter than others and more highly valued. All memories were for her but as the motes in one fused radiance that followed her and made more luminous the pathway of her future.

Only the insane take themselves quite seriously.