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....

The past is a work of art free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

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

Humility is a virtue and it is a virtue innate in guests.

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad....

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....