Max Beerbohm
Max Beerbohm
Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohmwas an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist. He first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humorist. He was the drama critic for the Saturday Review from 1898 until 1910, when he relocated to Rapallo, Italy. In his later years he was popular for his occasional radio broadcasts. Among his best-known works is his only novel, Zuleika Dobson, published in 1911. His caricatures, drawn usually in pen or pencil with muted watercolour tinting,...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth24 August 1872
Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied....
Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
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.
She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.