Quotes by : Max Beerbohm

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

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual....

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

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

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate....

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

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess....

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

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that....