Quotes by Sir Max Beerbohm

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  To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.

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

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  Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

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

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  It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

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  Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

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

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  Nobody ever died of laughter.

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  One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

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

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  She was one of those people who said ''I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.''

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  The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

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