Quotes by : Max Beerbohm

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

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

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

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

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

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

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

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

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.